Possible: Bill Gates on possibility, AI, and humanity

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Reid and Aria sat down with Bill Gates to discuss his main areas of focus: climate change, energy, global health, and education—and how AI will help transform each of them. Taking a bird’s-eye view of society’s challenges, it’s easy to give in to pessimism. But as one of the most influential people in the world, Bill Gates has a unique perspective on how far humanity has come and what our potential—and timelines—for meaningful change really look like. He gets granular on everything from cows (5% of global emissions) to disease reduction and eradication (Guinea worm disease). At each turn, he has data at his fingertips to ground his beliefs. So, what current set of innovations is Bill most excited about? And what is realistically on the horizon for AI, climate change, energy, global health, and education?

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0:00.0	What does the AI revolution mean for jobs, for getting things done?
0:05.1	Who are the people creating this technology? And what do they think?
0:10.0	I'm Rana El Caliubi, an AI scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and now host of the new podcast,
0:17.1	Pioneers of AI. Think of it as your guide for all things AI with the most human issues at the center.
0:24.6	Join me every Wednesday for Pioneers of AI.
0:28.1	And don't forget to subscribe wherever you tune in.
0:41.8	Hey, Masters of Scale listeners, it's Reed.
0:47.9	I'm excited to bring you a bonus episode today for my other award-winning podcast called Possible,
0:53.2	which I co-host with former CEO of Do Something.org and my chief of staff, Aria Finger.
0:56.6	Possible is about sketching out the brightest version of our future and mapping out what it will take to get there. In this episode, we speak to
1:02.4	technologists, business leader, and philanthropist Bill Gates. We talk about his current areas of focus,
1:08.9	climate change, energy, global health, and education,
1:13.2	and how AI will help transform each of them.
1:18.0	Stay tuned for our conversation with Bill, and if you like what you hear, subscribe to possible wherever you listen to your podcasts.
1:25.6	Now on to the show.
1:32.0	Thank you. wherever you listen to your podcasts. Now on to the show. AI for material science biology, it is a gigantic accelerator.
1:41.4	So take whatever green product you think is going to be the hardest to get the zero green premium, rethink how hard that's going to be because the AI tools are so phenomenal at accelerating all of these paths of innovation.
2:08.4	Hi, I'm Reid Hoffman.
2:09.8	And I'm Aria Finker.
2:14.7	We want to know what happens if in the future everything breaks humanity's way.
2:18.5	What we can possibly get right if we leverage technology like AI and our collective effort effectively. We're speaking with technologists, ambitious builders,
2:25.1	and deep thinkers across many fields, AI, geopolitics, media, healthcare, education, and more.
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