Gates has been publicly concerned about AI X-risk since at least 2015, and he hasn’t yet funded anything to try to address it (at least that I’m aware of), so I think it’s unlikely that he’s going to start now (though who knows – this whole thing could add a sense of respectability to the endeavor that pushes him to do it).
Gates has been publicly concerned about AI X-risk since at least 2015, and he hasn’t yet funded anything to try to address it (at least that I’m aware of), so I think it’s unlikely that he’s going to start now (though who knows – this whole thing could add a sense of respectability to the endeavor that pushes him to do it).