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Bill Gates Says AI Will Make Everyone's Lives Easier in the Future. CNN reports that Bill Gates predicts artificial intelligence will have a transformative impact on the world within the next five years. The emergence of AI has elicited fear that millions of jobs around the world could be eliminated. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), nearly 40% of all jobs globally could be impacted by AI. In an interview with CNN, Gates pointed to history to show how the advent of new technology always comes with fear before opportunity. "As we had [with] agricultural productivity in 1900, people were like ‘Hey, what are people going to do?’ In fact, a lot of new things, a lot of new job categories were created and we’re way better off than when everybody was doing farm work. This will be like that." Gates told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that AI will make people's lives easier while also being integrated into critical sectors like education and medicine. "The goal of the Gates Foundation is to make sure that the delay between benefitting people in poor countries versus getting to rich countries will make that very short." "After all, the shortages of doctors and teachers is way more acute in Africa then it is in the West." Bill Gates, via CNN. However, the latest IMF report contradicts Gates' predictions, finding that AI is likely to deepen inequality without government intervention. According to 'Bloomberg's Billionaires Index,' Gates is the fourth-richest person in the world with an estimated worth of $140 billion. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT