Bill Gates: “How are we going to tackle digital misinformation that is a driver of polarization? We will have to consider AI.”
Essays by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Bill Gates seems to think AI has a role to play in combating political polarization and misinformation, and advancing his climate agenda.
The following interview is in English, although there are some comments in German interspersed with the interview.
From Breitbart;
Bill Gates: AI can help solve ‘digital misinformation’ problem
Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates said AI should be seen as a tool to combat “digital misinformation” and “political polarization” in an interview published on Thursday with Handelsblatta German news agency.
In response to a question about the spread of “misinformation” through AI, Gates called the January 6, 2021 event an “attack on the Capitol. I said:
I am certainly concerned about political polarization and I know the US situation best. I wouldn’t expect people to attack the Capitol, or people to deny the validity of the election results. I’m in a state of shock about that.
We can’t blame AI for that. That happened. It could have been magnified by the digital channels that allow various conspiracy theories like QAnon or whatever to be launched by people who want to believe those. So digital tools may have played an auxiliary role.
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Gates sees “climate change” as an existential threat to humanity while calling for government measures to force reductions and eventual elimination of fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions. related dioxide.
“How are we going to tackle digital misinformation that is a driver of polarization? We will have to consider AI.”
It’s hard to say whether Bill Gates thinks AI is part of the problem, part of the solution, or both. Either way, the people who actually develop AI seem to have very clear ideas about what they want to do with them.
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