Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
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7:37 AM PDT · August 26, 2026
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Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI.
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