Superbugs, Climate Chaos Have Bill Gates and the UN Worried
- Governments trail after companies from AI to gene engineering
- United Nations sees emerging set of ‘mega trend’ threats
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Photographer: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates joined the United Nations to warn world leaders about a new series of threats shaping up as megatrends, led by global warming, superbugs and artificial intelligence.
U.S. Vice President Michael Pence and trans-Atlantic military officials were on the receiving end of the warnings issued by Gates, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They all said that the world isn’t prepared to deal with the emerging risks.