“It [using ChatGPT in schools] reminds me of the time when electronic calculators became widespread in the 1970s and 1980s. Some math teachers worried that students would stop learning how to do basic arithmetic, but others embraced the new technology and focused on the thinking skills behind the arithmetic.”
Bill Gates
The risks of AI are real but manageable (Primary source)
Bill Gates argues that AI poses real risks—deepfakes, cyberattacks, job disruption, bias—but these challenges are manageable; society has faced disruptive technologies before and successfully adapted through regulation, innovation, and norms.
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— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
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— Bill Gates Primary source“Remember that Time is Money.”
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