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Bill Gates strongly promotes the "smart use" of AI, and the foundation is building more representative language data.

Bill Gates strongly promotes the "smart use" of AI, and the foundation is building more representative language data.

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September 22nd, 2026

Bill Gates strongly promotes the "smart use" of AI, and the foundation is building more representative language data.

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Speaking at his foundation's "Goalkeepers" gathering, Bill Gates said that combining "greater generosity" with "smart use of AI" could accelerate the fight against inequality, and he urged the world's wealthiest nations to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence to what he called "life-saving innovations."

比爾蓋茲在其基金會的「守門人」聚會上表示,「增加慷慨」與「聰明運用AI」兩者結合,可加速對抗不平等,並敦促全球最富裕國家擴大國際援助,將人工智慧應用於他認為的「救命創新」。

"We have neither managed to establish the right human values, nor found a way to bind the behaviour of these AIs with ethical principles," said Gates, the foundation's chairman, during a conversation with political commentator Van Jones on Monday at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

「我們既未能確立正確的人類價值觀,也未能找到以道德準則約束這些AI行為的方法,」該基金會主席蓋茲在週一於紐約林肯中心爵士樂廳與政治評論員范瓊斯的對談中說道。

The Gates Foundation's annual event is usually held during the week of the UN High-Level Meeting, and this year it opened with a reminder: of the world's 34 wealthiest countries, 26 cut their development aid to poor nations last year.

蓋茲基金會的年度活動通常在聯合國高階會議召開的那一週舉辦,今年開場即提醒:全球34個最富裕國家中,有26國去年減少了對貧窮國家的發展援助。

At the same time, the United Nations warned that progress on its Sustainable Development Goals — the ambitious targets to reduce poverty, improve health, and protect the environment by 2030 — has been "slow and uneven."

與此同時,聯合國警告,其永續發展目標——即2030年前減少貧窮、改善健康與保護環境的宏大目標——進展「緩慢且不均衡」。

Gates pointed out that this wave of cuts is happening at a time when "we have some of the best innovations in history, capable of improving people's lives."

蓋茲指出,這波縮減發生之際,「我們擁有了一些史上最好的創新,足以改善人們的生活。」

During the two-hour event, his foundation spent most of its time honoring educators, farmers, and health workers who are using AI to identify students' learning gaps, combat pests, and better access patients' medical records.

他的基金會在兩小時的活動中,大部分時間都在表揚教育工作者、農民和衛生工作者,他們正運用AI辨識學生的學習落差、防治蟲害,以及更妥善地調閱病患的醫療紀錄。

The Gates Foundation also promoted its newly established coalition, whose members include Anthropic, Google, the OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organisations, dedicated to making AI more accessible in underrepresented languages.

蓋茲基金會也宣傳其新成立的聯盟,成員包括Anthropic、Google、OpenAI Foundation及其他數十個組織,致力讓AI在代表性不足的語言中更易使用。

According to Monday's announcement, there are 60 partners in total, spanning frontier AI labs, businesses, philanthropic organisations and other bodies already working to expand the number of languages in which AI tools are available.

根據週一的宣布,合作夥伴共60個,涵蓋前沿AI實驗室、企業、慈善機構及其他已在努力擴大AI工具語言數量的機構。

The Gates Foundation believes this will help combat global inequality.

蓋茲基金會認為,這將有助於對抗全球不平等。

The coalition aims to reach more than three billion people within five years by better coordinating existing efforts.

該聯盟的目標是透過更妥善協調現有努力,在五年內觸及超過30億人。

Mark Suzman, the CEO of the Gates Foundation, stated that this work must proceed "at full speed," even though some of the largest AI companies are urging their industry to slow down the development of advanced models.

蓋茲基金會執行長馬克·蘇茲曼表示,這項工作必須「全速前進」,儘管一些最大的AI公司正敦促其產業放慢先進模型的開發。

He pointed out that governments must regulate the impact on cybersecurity or child development, and at the same time extend the humanitarian applications of AI to impoverished communities that are currently "locked out."

他指出,各國政府必須規範對網路安全或兒童發展的影響,並同時將AI的人道應用擴及目前被「拒於門外」的貧困社群。

"Even if AI were frozen right now — which I don't expect, nor am I calling for — we would still want to build these language datasets and make them work with the tools we currently have available," Sutzman said.

「即使AI現在被凍結——我不預期如此,我也沒有這樣呼籲——我們仍會希望建立這些語言資料集,並讓它們能與我們目前可用的工具搭配使用,」蘇茲曼說。

This collaboration comes on the heels of the Gatekeepers report released last week.

這項合作緊接在上週發布的《守門人》報告之後。

In that report, the foundation pledged to invest $1 billion in AI-focused efforts to improve health outcomes, upgrade educational tools, and inform the farming practices of smallholder farmers worldwide.

該報告中,基金會承諾投入10億美元於以AI為重點的工作,以改善健康成果、升級教育工具,並為全球小農的耕作方式提供資訊。

The report warned that a lack of representative language data could lead a model to mistranslate a Malawian pregnant woman's statement that her "water broke" into a literal English rendering that she "threw away water."

報告警告,缺乏代表性的語言資料可能導致模型將一名馬拉威孕婦所說的「破水了」誤譯為她「把水丟掉了」的直接英文。

E.M. Lewis-Chung, CEO of the Mozilla Data Collective, stated that many AI tools bear an "original sin" because they are trained on language data scraped from the internet.

Mozilla資料集體執行長E.M.路易斯-鍾表示,許多AI工具之所以背負「原罪」,在於它們是透過從網路上抓取的語言資料訓練而成。

The company was incubated by the Mozilla Foundation and is now a subsidiary of the nonprofit organization Mozilla.org.

該公司由Mozilla基金會孵化,現為非營利組織Mozilla.org的子公司。

This data-sharing platform is designed to help communities upload cultural and linguistic datasets on their own terms, rather than having such data taken from the internet without explicit consent.

這個資料共享平台旨在協助社群按自身條件上傳文化與語言資料集,而非在未經明確同意的情況下從網路上取用這些資料。

"The internet is not a representative space," she said.

「網際網路不是一個具代表性的空間,」她說。

"How could you possibly think that something trained mainly on Reddit would yield a culturally diverse and representative system?"

「你怎麼會認為,一個主要以Reddit訓練出來的東西,能得到文化多元且具代表性的系統?」

Suzman said that details such as the coalition's governance are still being finalised.

蘇茲曼表示,該聯盟的治理等細節仍在敲定中。

A secretariat will be responsible for tracking the commitments of each signatory, and the Gates Foundation may, when necessary, push partners to fill larger gaps.

一個秘書處將負責追蹤各簽署方的承諾,而蓋茲基金會必要時可能推動合作夥伴填補更大的缺口。

Alliance member Google continues to fund a project aimed at collecting more than 150,000 hours of audio in every region of India.

聯盟成員Google持續資助一項計畫,旨在於印度每個地區蒐集逾15萬小時的音訊。

This initiative, called Project Vaani, highlights the necessity of collecting speech data for dialects within a language, according to James Manyika, a senior vice president at Google.

這項名為「Vaani計畫」的行動,凸顯了蒐集語言內部方言語音資料的必要性,Google資深副總裁詹姆斯·馬尼卡表示。

He pointed out that, in order to achieve the goal, Google is recording speech on the ground with local partners.

他指出,為達成目標,Google正與當地合作夥伴在現場錄製語音。

Anthropic's CEO once wrote an article calling for industry-wide cooperation to slow down the pace of development; the company has partnered with foundations to accelerate vaccine research and development, and to expand its chatbot's dataset on local crops.

Anthropic的執行長曾撰文,呼籲業界合作以減緩發展速度;該公司已與基金會合作,加速疫苗研發,並擴充其聊天機器人有關當地作物的資料集。

Elizabeth Kelly, the head of Anthropic's Beneficial Deployment division, admitted that the company's products "lag behind, especially when it comes to many African languages."

Anthropic有益部署部門主管伊莉莎白·凱莉承認,該公司的產品「尤其在許多非洲語言方面落後」。

She told the Associated Press: "We are acutely aware that unless we truly get the language part right, we cannot realise any of the benefits we hope to see, whether it is improving patient treatment outcomes or raising literacy and numeracy levels among students worldwide."

她告訴美聯社:「我們深切意識到,除非我們真正把語言這一塊做對,否則我們無法實現任何我們希望看到的益處,無論是改善病患治療結果,或是提升全球學生的識字與算術能力。」

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