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Bill Gates
Chair, Gates Foundation
Co-founded Microsoft in 1975; now chairs the Gates Foundation, which will close in 2045.
Real Alpha has cut 6 moments of Bill Gates (Chair, Gates Foundation) talking, from an interview on Decoder published Oct 22, 2026.
What Bill Gates said
- 34:49
AI could make most human labor unnecessary within 20 years
“My big concern is this 20-year transition period where you'll have winners and losers and a lot of disruption”
at 41:49 - 23:17
Gates sees three routes to controlling AI
“And finally, that you put something that's like a police layer, a security layer, which, you know, we have this in all sorts of software architectures”
at 24:26 - 52:58
Powerful open models should keep safeguards on their platforms
“You would not let a model past a certain capability be copied down to a client machine unless you'd somehow figured out how to monitor down to that client machine”
at 56:31 - 13:46
Gates sees three routes to AI control
“One is to have an external set of things that get to look at all of the model's actions and subject them to a symbolic, clearly stated constraint.”
at 15:06 - 45:58
AI could predict drug side effects without human trials
“in the next five to ten years, I think there's a very good chance these in-silicon models will give us that capability.”
at 48:31 - 29:30
Gates puts a one-gigawatt data center at $40 billion
“one gigawatt is say a 40 billion dollar investment”
at 31:51
- 34:49
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