Productivity will go up and we get to decide do we do new things?

Do we reduce work week?

Do we let people retire earlier?

Eventually society is better off.

Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, how AI will change the world and the workforce,

even at the Gates Foundation.

We're asking everybody to be creative about, okay, you know, could we have used third parties to do this,

or could we use AI to do it? And I'd say every organization should probably be asking those questions.

And what tech advances and competition might mean for geopolitics?

All this innovation should improve things. But it'll always be somewhat determined by how well

we get along with each other. A little bit, I worry that we may not be as peaceful as we have this.

Plus, the Gates Foundation's newest initiative with OpenAI

to optimize health clinic care in Africa.

You'll see the Gates Foundation working with Anthropic and Google and Microsoft and Open AI.

We have major things that we'll do with each of them.

I'm CNBC producer Cameron Costa.

SquawkPod reports from Davos, 2026, Bill Gates begins right now.

Yeah. Bill Gates begins right now. While Joe Kernan, Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin are at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they meet up and interview the greatest minds in technology, politics,

and finance. And mostly, they're roughing it, bundled, but very much outside in the mountains.

It's peaceful and warm, actually. Not so terrible.

One of Andrews interviews this year was with Bill Gates.

Bill's like it's a little cold. Now, some of it you may have caught on squad. One of Andrews interviews this year was with Bill Gates.

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