Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

Gates argues only binding government regulation of AI safeguards — not market competition or corporate self-restraint — can manage roughly two decades of severe AI-driven disruption.

• 20-year transition warning: Gates says the world faces roughly two decades of disruption before reaching an era of AI-driven abundance, with winners and losers along the way.
• Urgent but not a doomer: Gates calls AI the most profound and dangerous technology humanity has made, citing cyberattacks, bioterrorism, and job disruption as near-term risks outweighing distant AGI/consciousness debates.

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