Bill Gates spoke at his foundation’s Goalkeepers event.

He said “increased generosity” and “the smart use of AI” could speed up the fight against inequality.

He asked the world’s richest countries to give more international aid.

He also asked them to use AI for what he called “lifesaving innovations.”

Gates is the foundation’s chair.

He spoke on Monday with political commentator Van Jones in New York.

He said the world failed to build in the right human values.

He also said it failed to keep a moral code controlling what AIs do.

The foundation’s yearly event opened with a reminder.

Last year, 26 of the world’s 34 wealthiest nations cut development aid to poorer countries.

The U.N. has warned that progress on its sustainable development goals is “slow and uneven.”

Gates suggested this is happening when “we have some of the best innovations ever to improve people’s lives.”

The event highlighted educators, farmers and health workers.

They use AI to find students’ learning gaps, fight pest infestations and better recall patients’ medical records.

The Gates Foundation announced a new coalition of 60 partners.

These include Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations.

The group aims to make AI more accessible in underrepresented languages.

It also aims to reach more than 3 billion people over five years.

Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said this work must continue “full speed ahead.”

This is true even as some large AI companies urge their industry to slow down.

He said governments must regulate impacts on cybersecurity and children’s development.

They must also extend AI’s humanitarian uses to poor communities.

The coalition follows last week’s Goalkeepers report.

In it, the foundation committed $1 billion to AI-focused efforts in health, education and farming.

The report warned that unrepresentative language data could make a model mistranslate a pregnant Malawi woman.

She might say her “water has broken.”

Mozilla Data Collective CEO E.M. Lewis-Jong said the “original sin” is that many AI tools were trained on data scraped from the internet.

She said the internet is not a representative space.

Suzman said the coalition’s governance details are still being worked out.