Bill Gates pulls out of India's AI summit over Epstein files controversy

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Bill Gates drops out of India's AI summit amid Epstein controversy

Bill Gates was due to give a keynote address at India's high-profile summit. ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates canceled an appearance at the India AI Impact Summit. He pulled out just hours before he was set to give a keynote address. The Gates Foundation said the decision was made to "ensure the focus" remained on the summit's priorities. Bill Gates pulled out of the India AI Impact Summit on Thursday, just hours before he was due to appear to give a keynote speech. The Microsoft cofounder's decision to cancel his appearance at the high-profile event follows mounting scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. "After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remained on the AI Summit's key priorities, Mr. Gates did not deliver the keynote address at the AI Summit," the Gates Foundation said in a statement provided to Business Insider. The spokesperson added that Ankur Vora, the foundation's chief strategy officer and president of its Africa and India offices, had spoken instead. "The Gates Foundation remains fully committed to our work in India to advance our shared health and development goals," they added. Gates's interactions with Epstein have faced scrutiny after the Justice Department released 3 million emails related to the late sex offender. One of the emails, with the subject line "bill," suggested that Gates requested medication for a sexually transmitted disease to give to his now ex-wife, Melinda French Gates. "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false," a spokesperson for Gates told Business Insider in a statement earlier this month. "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame." Read the original article on Business Insider

Bill Gates pulls out of India AI summit; anger mounts over organisational lapses

Bill Gates pulls out of India AI summit; anger mounts over organisational lapses

Bill Gates pulled out of India’s AI Impact Summit hours before his scheduled keynote address on Thursday, dealing another blow to a flagship event already marred by organisational lapses, a robot row and complaints of traffic chaos. Gates’ absence, followed by another high-profile cancellation by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, adds to a difficult opening for a summit billed as the first major artificial intelligence forum in the Global South, where India has sought to position itself as a leading voice in worldwide AI governance. The Gates Foundation said the billionaire will not deliver his address “to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit’s key priorities”. Only days ago, the foundation had dismissed rumours of his absence and insisted he was on track to attend. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for children’s safety on AI platforms as he addressed the gathering on Thursday, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “We must be even more vigilant about children’s safety. Just as a school syllabus is curated, the AI space should also be child- and family-guided,” Modi said, after standing on stage with top AI executives and posing for photographs with their arms raised in a show of strength. The photoshoot produced an awkward moment when Altman and Amodei, chiefs of rival AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic, stood side by side on stage but did not hold hands, although the other executives did. India’s first major AI summit has been marred by organisational lapses that have left attendees shocked and angry over what they described as a lack of planning by the Indian government. Chaos and traffic snarls Gates’ cancellation comes after the US Department of Justice released emails last month that included communication between late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the Gates Foundation’s staff. Gates has said the relationship was confined to philanthropy-related discussions and that it was a mistake for him to meet Epstein. The summit exhibition halls were shut to the public on Thursday in a surprise move that led to more anger among participating companies that had put up stalls and pavilions. The venue compound was largely deserted after three days of large crowds at the event. Indian university Galgotias was asked to vacate its stall after a staff member presented a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, sparking a public uproar. Police repeatedly shut roads to give preference to VIP movement at the summit, creating chaos in the city of 20 million people. The Indian government has apologised for the inconvenience caused to attendees in the initial days. But on Wednesday, footage on social media showed scores of attendees at the summit walking for miles in central Delhi as roads were shut, with no availability of taxis and no shuttle services arranged. Opposition parties attacked the government and the prime minister for poorly managing the global summit. “How can you expect your engineers, AI guys, to walk such distances…And then we complain that entrepreneurs are leaving India,” said Pawan Khera, the Congress party spokesperson. Still, there has been more than $100 billion of investment in India AI projects pledged during the summit, including from the Adani Group conglomerate, tech giant Microsoft, and data centre firm Yotta. The Indian government has said it expects total pledges to exceed $200bn in the next two years, although analysts have warned that the rapid build-out risks straining India’s power grid and water supply.

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