The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten

Bill Gates is worried about AI.

Nobody’s preparing for a future of mass unemployment, inhumanly powerful cyber attacks, and a massive accumulation of power and wealth among emperors of tech.

Yes, that Bill Gates.

Really.

A mere 25 years since the Redmond global octopus squeezed its tentacles tighter with Windows XP, yer man’s getting cold feet about this tech stuff.

He glances nervously back at the Great Depression.

Do we really want to go back there? He’s not wrong, but that doesn't count for much these days.

His remedies, that of collective international regulation and national planning and investment in creating new realms of employment for the soon-to-be-defenestrated white and blue collar humans, are logical and necessary.

For the moment, at least, this simple fact renders them impossible, in the same way that an increasingly aggressive decarbonization of the economy is logical, necessary, and currently impossible.

Planning for the future is hard when your entire schtick is fantasy nostalgia.

People, it seems, will have to do it for themselves.

Gates has previously talked AI up as transformative for education.

The situation has developed, not entirely to our advantage.

Instead of creating richer, more personalized, more insightful teaching and learning, entire classes are handing in homework harvested straight from the LLM farms in cloudland and served raw.