Bill Gates weighs in on proposed AI pause: Won’t ‘solve’ challenges

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates doesn’t believe that a temporary pause on artificial intelligence (AI) development will do much to “solve the challenges” ahead.

In his first public comments since Tesla CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and innovators signed a letter calling for a six-month moratorium on developing powerful AI systems, Gates told Reuters in an interview he doesn’t understand how a pause could work