Reading up on Bill Gates
7 deep · digging since mar 17
- if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced
Managers must allow teams time to experiment with AI, or they risk leaving employees unprepared and vulnerable to replacement in today's market.
- Opinion | Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
Bill Gates warns that rapid AI advances are outpacing efforts to address risks, criticizing the lack of engagement on managing those dangers.
- A Response to Bill Gates's Essay - by X.PIN and CT Zhao
The essay contends that the real AI risk lies in industry shifting costs to the public, urging accountability for today’s AI companies rather than focusing on hypothetical superintelligence.
- Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Bill Gates warned that AI poses greater risks than tech companies acknowledge, citing potential mass unemployment and bioterrorism threats to the future.
- Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking. - WSJ
Newly released Justice Department files and employee accounts reveal Bill Gates's decades-long association with Jeffrey Epstein, including multiple meetings, affairs, and attempts by his staff to control media narratives, leading to severed ties with Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and international engagements.
- A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures - The Old New Thing
A Microsoft engineer in Boca Raton escalated a TAB-key dispute to his manager, who refused to overrule him, leading to an IBM VP opposing the choice and a deadpan reply ending the debate.
- The Billionaire Backlash Against a Philanthropic Dream - The New York Times
Fewer billionaires are signing the Giving Pledge, signaling a waning commitment among the ultra-wealthy to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropy.