Bill Gates warns that artificial intelligence risks widening the gaps between rich and poor countries, and announces a two-year package divided between health, education and agriculture.
The Gates Foundation announced on Tuesday a two-year $1 billion allocation to expand access to artificial intelligence in the poorest countries. The message accompanying the announcement is a warning: without rapid intervention by technology companies and political leaders, the dissemination of AI will amplify social inequalities rather than reduce them.
The announced distribution includes approximately $400 million for health, $400 million for education and $100 million for agriculture. The intended uses are deliberately concrete: to train models on local languages, to reread clinical reports looking for neglected symptoms, to help teachers rebuild a sequence around the least understood notions of their class, or to provide small farmers with real-time advice on weather, pests and fertilization.
In parallel, the Foundation and OpenAI launch an initiative called Horizon1000. It starts in Rwanda, where OpenAI provides $50 million to train health workers, before an extension announced to other African countries. The goal is to deploy AI tools to a thousand primary care centres across the continent by 2028.
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