Bill Gates said artificial intelligence (AI) will accelerate innovation and make combating climate change easier – but he also warned that it should be “used by people with good intentions”.
The philanthropist and Microsoft the co-founder made the comments during an interview with Sky News at the Breakthrough Energy Summit in London.
Gates counted The world with Yalda Hakim that AI had so far “played a fairly modest role” in helping combat climate change, but would make innovation “much easier to do”.
He said: “AI helps us model things in the sciences: better understand materials, catalysts and how to make proteins.
“AI, in all areas of activity, will accelerate innovation, whether in medicine or helping with tutoring and education.
“[With] climate [change]some of the complex things like modeling fusion energy – thank goodness AI It’ll make this a lot easier to do.”
When asked if he was concerned about suggestions that such technologies could be used to overthrow governments, Gates said he had “not heard of that specific scenario.”
“AI is so important that we have to make sure it is used primarily by people with good intentions,” he said.
He added that “whenever you have a new technology” it is “primarily used by teachers, doctors and scientists to help them be more effective” but said “AI could be used by” people involved in cyberattacks. or political interference.
“Therefore, we need to ensure that the good guys are at the forefront of detecting and preventing this type of use,” he said.
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‘Penalties for misleading people’
Gates went on to say that there was nothing “gigantic” about AI, adding: “Misinformation exists, but that has nothing to do with AI.”
He said we have to “anticipate” that AI could be used to produce fake videos, which he said should be marked as inauthentic.
“Because we know that when something is printed on a piece of paper, anyone could have typed it, but we still think of videos as authentic because they used to be hard to fake,” he said, while urging people to ask themselves: “Where did it come from? that?”
“There will be laws creating penalties for those who deceive people,” he added.
However, he remained optimistic for the future, adding: “The most important thing will be advancing medical science, advancing education and addressing this climate issue and making innovation advance even faster.”
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‘Wonderful technology’
Pressed on whether AI could be used in cyberattacks on infrastructure such as hospitalswater or electricity, Gates said: “The defense has to be smarter than the offense. And both sides will use AI to improve their game.”
Asked if he was worried about the future of AI, he said it was a “wonderful technology when used to help with teaching and healthcare”.
Gates added: “This will bring changes that will challenge governments to think: ‘How can we move forward?’ And it’s at a time when people trust the government to step in and do these things. How agile will the government be?[s] to be?
“So this dialogue that governments are starting to pay attention to is very important.”
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