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Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
The two big challenges in the next decade are use of AI by bad actors and disruption to the job market. Both are real risks that we need to do a better job managing.
AI Verified source (Jan 9, 2026)
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AI Verified The supplied text appears verbatim at the provided Gates Notes URL in the section on AI risks, and that same page identifies the piece as authored by Bill Gates and published on Friday, Jan 9, 2026. I found no discrepancy in the stored content, author, date, or source URL. ([gatesnotes.com](https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/the-year-ahead-2026)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed I could not verify this as a verbatim Bill Gates quote. In Bill Gates’s 2026 annual letter, the original text is: “The two big challenges in the next decade are use of AI by bad actors and disruption to the job market. Both are real risks that we need to do a better job managing.” The Fortune URL you provided reprints the same wording. ([gatesnotes.com](https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/save-lives/reader/amazing-stories-i-wish-everyone-knew)) Your version changes the phrasing materially (for example, “In the next decade,” “biggest,” “will be,” and “its disruption of the job market”). A secondary eWeek article uses similar wording as a paraphrase for the first sentence and quotes only the second sentence, which reinforces that the submitted version is not verbatim. ([eweek.com](https://www.eweek.com/news/bill-gates-the-year-ahead-2026/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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