Bill Gates

“Axios AI+ returns to San Francisco on Dec. 3, including conversations with Bill Gates, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, and Blackstone president Jon Gray.”

“Bill Gates is gearing up to dramatically expand his AI safety push, personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, sources tell Axios.”

“Bill Gates cited as arguing that new laws are needed”

“Named by Brad as leaders of the frontier model review and the SI Force coordination”

“AI is 'certainly powerful enough' to trigger events that 'cause a billion deaths' if used maliciously”

“foundation will spend at least $1 billion over two years on AI projects in health care, agriculture, education and non-English data sets.”

“Bill Gates referenced regarding his suggestion to tax AI agent/token usage to fund redistribution.”

“Bill Gates — Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist.”

“This unprecedented technology demands an unprecedented global response.”

“Bill Gates took an even more ambitious swing on AI safety, calling for a systematic all-of-society effort to prepare for the massive disruptions that AI is likely to bring.”

“Big Tech is knowingly downplaying AI's dangers because too much money is at stake, warning...that the technology could cause mass unemployment, bioterrorism, and other grave harms without urgent government intervention.”

“Gates argues the traditional analogy to earlier technological revolutions breaks down because those transitions occurred over generations and ultimately produced new work requiring human cognition. AI itself can substitute for that cognition.”

“Raised $263m in combined Series D and E funding from backers like RA Capital Management, GV, GSK, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos.”

“At a young age, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft, their school was the first, one of the only schools in the country to have a computer.”

“Bill said his goal for Microsoft was to put a personal computer in every home and on every desk running Microsoft software. And this was at a time where personal computers mostly didn't exist.”

“Microsoft, where we were a closed source — Bill Gates invented the closed source business model.”

“I gave it to Bill Gates... a number of these people are this, that I would call a shaper.”

“Famously, Bill Gates selling his Microsoft stock. Bill Gates would be the wealthiest man in the world had he just not sold his Microsoft stock.”

“Bill Gates testified at closed-door House Oversight hearing that Jeffrey Epstein tried to use information about Gates's extramarital affairs to pressure him to renew ties after Gates had begun distancing himself from Epstein.”

“Newly released Jeffrey Epstein files reveal deeper ties than previously acknowledged...prompting internal unrest at the Gates Foundation.”

“It was the same thing with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Paul Allen and Phil Knight. They all started companies because they thought that was interesting fun... But those people always end up richer. They're owners. They didn't check out.”

“Bill Gates, when he was coding or Mark Zuckerberg, when he picked up programming or Mr. Beast, when he started doing YouTube videos at age 12...”

“We have raised $450 million in the Series A. So it's enough capital. And with that, we're attacking the problem now. People like Vinod Khosla, but also people like John Doerr, people like Bill Gates. These are all people that have all invested in the company.”