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Governments are not adequately preparing for how artificial intelligence could displace workers, strain social systems, and create global risks.
Bill Gates made that assessment this week with a directness that is difficult to soften: "there is no plan" for the upheaval AI will cause.
The warning is structural rather than speculative, and it identifies the absence of planning as a specific, present failure. The mechanism Gates is pointing to is a gap between pace and preparedness.
AI development and deployment are moving faster than the institutional infrastructure governments rely on to absorb economic disruption.
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