Comment by Bill Gates

Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
We should use 2026 to prepare ourselves for these changes—including which policies will best help spread the wealth and deal with the important role jobs play in our society.
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AI Verified Verified: the exact sentence appears verbatim in Bill Gates’s Jan. 9, 2026 essay “The Year Ahead 2026: Optimism with footnotes,” attributed “By Bill Gates” on Gates Notes, and the same text appears on the Fortune URL you provided, which republishes the letter in full. ([gatesnotes.com](https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/the-year-ahead-2026)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. Fortune source returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed the passage "We should use 2026 to prepare ourselves for these changes—including which policies will best help spread the wealth and deal with the important role jobs play in our society" is from Bill Gates's 2026 annual letter, corroborated by Yahoo, dnyuz and other reprints of the full letter. Author attribution correct; year 2026 current. Vote alignment correct: on the statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth", Gates calls for policies to spread the wealth from AI-driven change, so the "for" vote matches. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 22d ago
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