{"id":1035993,"date":"2026-09-16T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035993"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:45:52","slug":"bill-gates-announces-1-billion-donation-to-ai-efforts-after-warning-that-this-technology-poses-grave-threat-to-jobs-and-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/bill-gates-announces-1-billion-donation-to-ai-efforts-after-warning-that-this-technology-poses-grave-threat-to-jobs-and-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates announces $1 billion donation to AI efforts after warning that this technology poses grave threat to jobs and human life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gates Foundation, founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, has announced a donation of $1 billion across the next two years to broaden worldwide access to artificial intelligence (AI) and deploy the technology to solve systemic social disparities. The massive funding pledge, revealed in the organisation\u2019s yearly Goalkeepers report, arrives alongside urgent warnings from foundation chairman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has cautioned that unchecked AI models pose severe threat to human life and global employment stability.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to redirect computational breakthroughs toward underserved populations, with the report emphasising that immediate intervention is needed to ensure machine learning closes societal divides rather than widening them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gates Foundation, founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, has announced a donation of $1 billion across the next two years to broaden worldwide access to artificial intelligence (AI) and deploy the technology to solve systemic social disparities. The massive funding pledge, revealed in the organisation\u2019s yearly Goalkeepers report, arrives alongside urgent warnings from foundation chairman and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has cautioned that unchecked AI models pose severe threat to human life and global employment stability. The initiative aims to redirect computational breakthroughs toward underserved populations, with the report emphasising that immediate intervention is needed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035996,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035993\/revisions\/1035996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}