Bill Gates says younger generations should be worried about 4 ‘very scary’ things

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Bill Gates says younger generations should be worried about 4 ‘very scary’ things

Bill Gates told Patrick Collison that younger generations should worry about four things.

They are the climate crisis, unchecked AI, nuclear war, and the spread of disease.

Gates said that despite his concerns, he thinks people will be “so much better off” in the future.

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says that if he were young again, he’d be afraid of more than just the atom bomb.

“There’s, you know, about four or five things that are very scary, and the only one that I really understood and worried about a lot when I was young was nuclear war,” Gates said in an

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Gates, the founder of

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and chair of the

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, shared his perspective on the evolving risks facing society.

“Today I think we’d add climate change, bioterrorism/pandemic, and keeping control of AI in some form,” Gates said. “So, you know, now we have four footnotes.”

Gates also described social polarization as a problem, later adding, “The younger generation has to be very afraid of those things.”

This isn’t the first time Gates has identified these areas of concern. In a

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, Gates said that as his family grew, so did his desire to better the world.

“A grandchild does make you think about how we make sure the future is better — politics, health, climate, etc.,” he wrote.

Gates argued that society is suffering from a dearth of intelligence. But he believes AI could present a solution rather than a problem. Though some have warned of

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, Gates thinks it could be harnessed productively.

“We don’t have as many medical experts, you know, people who can stay on top of everything, or people who can do math tutoring in the inner city,” Gates said. “And we have a shortage of intelligence, and so we use this market system to kind of allocate it. AI, over time — and people can argue about the time frames — will make intelligence essentially free.”

Despite the challenges, Gates said he still expects the citizens of the future to be largely better off — if they address the risks.

“Absent not solving some of these big problems, things are going to be so much better off,” Gates said. “Alzheimer’s, obesity, you know, we’ll have a cure for ****, we will have gotten rid of polio, measles, malaria. The pace of innovation is greater today than ever.”

While fear can often act as a paralytic, Gates believes it could be a galvanizing force for younger generations.

“They’ll actually, to some degree, exaggerate the likelihood and maybe the impact of some of those things in order to activate people to make sure we steer clear of those things,” he said.

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