Bill Gates has said that the next generation should be scared and work to solve at least four big problems as time goes on.

Yes, Bill Gates is scared, even though he is one of the richest people in the world. Many of his fears are about the future.

However, the 69-year-old tech billionaire doesn’t care as much about himself as he does about the next generation.

During a conversation with Patrick Collison, he said that younger people should worry about four important things, while he only had to worry about one.

During the interview he said: “There’s, you know, about four or five things that are very scary, and the only one that I really understood and worried about a lot when I was young was nuclear war.”

Of course, nuclear war is still a possibility, but most people who are able to think clearly agree that it and the winter of nuclear radiation are not good for people.

Gates, however, said that this worry about a nuclear war should now be paired with at least three other major worries.

He continued: “Today I think we’d add climate change, bioterrorism/pandemic, and keeping control of AI in some form.”

“So, you know, now we have four footnotes. The younger generation has to be very afraid of those things.”

Gates has said that AI has the ability to completely change society, which wouldn’t be good for everyone, but he has also said that AI could be useful in some situations.

Gates also said: “We don’t have as many medical experts, you know, people who can stay on top of everything, or people who can do math tutoring in the inner city.”

“And we have a shortage of intelligence, and so we use this market system to kind of allocate it. AI, over time—and people can argue about the time frames—will make intelligence essentially free.”

Even though there are signs about the future, Gates is still hopeful about what will happen to people and the next generation. He said that they would be better off in the long run, even though there were some problems that could happen.

He added: “Absent not solving some of these big problems, things are going to be so much better off.”

“Alzheimer’s, obesity, you know, we’ll have a cure for HIV, we will have gotten rid of polio, measles, malaria. The pace of innovation is greater today than ever.”

Bill Gates says that the future isn’t all bad news.

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