Gates says the window for AI for good is at most only 18 months.

Gates explained to reporters that the window of opportunity for AI to do good may be only 12-18 months. "We shouldn't waste any time. Take the health sector as an examplewhether it's letting AI directly help patients, helping healthcare workers improve their service capacity, or improving the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of follow-up visitsall of these mean saving a large number of lives."