Microsoft co -founder, Bill Gatesbecoming a philanthropist for health in the most disadvantaged countries, he accused today Elon Musk of being “The richest man in the world and be involved in the death of the poorest children in the world”in an interview with The New York Times.
At 69, Gates announces in this extensive interview that the Gates Foundation will stop operating in 2045, and It encourages the millionaires of the world to take their relay, although it observes globally that the great fortunes no longer turn into philanthropic and humanitarian work As was the case twenty years ago.
ELON MUSK’s example puts here: “He was the one who cut the USAID budget (the American development agency). He put it in the crusher, and all because that weekend did not go to a party.”
Musk “could have been a great philanthropist, but meanwhile, the richest man in the world has been involved in the death of the poorest children in the world ”he said, after explaining how Usaid cuts have meant the abrupt end of programs against HIV, malaria or polio.
Gates takes advantage of the interview to launch a call to the Millionaires of today: “It is not that we are running out of rich people. There will be more and more, and they will observe what artificial intelligence has done or has not done, and what governments have done and have not done.”
And this is where he launches an evening accusation: “I think that today’s rich should make more philanthropy. The rich from here twenty years should make more philanthropy,” he insists, in reference precisely to the date on which its foundation will cease to exist.
Trump and the AI
However, Gates, who defines himself as an eternal optimistic Donald Trump They will only mean a parenthesis between four and six years: “I do not think there will be one administration after another that cuts and cutting these things (the humanitarian budget). If we project ourselves from here to twenty years, I think we will continue to reduce infant mortality.”
Within that optimistic spirit, Gates believes in the power of artificial intelligence, And it gives as an example that AI (with all the data it incorporates) is able to provide in a remote place in the world “a personal doctor as good as the doctor who has spent an entire life exercising, and this can end up being better than what rich countries have.”
AI can also revolutionize agriculture and education -reflexiona-, although for this Large technology have to continue investing in an AI that goes beyond business benefit.
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