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Bill Gates attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026.

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Bill Gates has now had a chance to sound off on AI technology. He is a semi-doomer. He believes that AI will produce abundance but that the transition will feature economic calamities.

I don’t see any evidence produced for this. I’m more interested in his scoffing about regulation. He notes that we don’t just trust drugmakers to release drugs, hoping only that liability will protect consumers, then he posits that AI’s sheer power as a technology requires more.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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