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American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person in their The World's Billionaires list for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007.
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Gates used to be one of AI’s optimists, but now he calls it “the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near”
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates has issued one of his starkest warnings yet about artificial intelligence, saying that the technology has already crossed dangerous thresholds in cyberattacks and biological weapons — while governments remain unprepared to control what could become one o…
The Microsoft co-founder sees a 20-year period of pain before AI delivers on its full promise.