New York, May 8 (EFE) .- The co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, turned into a philanthropist for health in the most disadvantaged countries, today accused Elon Musk of being “the richest man in the world and being 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 encourages the millionaires of the world to take their relief, although it observes globally that the great fortunes no longer turn in philanthropic and humanitarian work as happened twenty years ago.
He puts Elon Musk’s example: “He was the one who cut the USAID budget (the American development agency). He put it in the crusher, and all because he did not go to a party that weekend.”
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 the cuts to the USAID have meant the abrupt end of programs against HIV, malaria or polio.
Gates takes advantage of the interview to launch 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 in twenty years should do more philanthropy,” he insists, in reference precisely to the date on which its foundation will cease to exist.
However, Gates, who defines himself as an eternal optimistic, does not drop in fatalism and believes that Trump administration cuts will only be a parenthesis between four and six years: “I do not think there will be one administration after another that cuts and cuts and cutting these things (the humanitarian budget). If we project ourselves from here to twenty years, I think we will continue to reduce the child mortality.”
Within that optimistic spirit, Gates believes in the power of artificial intelligence, and gives as an example that AI (with all the data it incorporates) is able to provide in a remote place of 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 the rich countries have.”
The AI can also revolutionize agriculture and education -reflexiona-, although for this the great technological ones have to continue investing in an AI that goes beyond the business benefit.
(C) EFE Agency
