Bill Gates warns that "a new form of terrorism will come"

ByRed Maxwell

Local time At the World Economic Forum held on Thursday, January 19, 2017, Mr. Bill Gates warned that a new form of terror will come in the near future. "New terrorism" makes borders meaningless, but the country and people are still not ready to fight terrorism.

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A new type of terrorism is bioterrorism, or terrorism that intentionally spreads epidemic diseases. "Although it is difficult to estimate the probability that bioterrorism will occur, the potential is extremely high," Gates said, and there is a need to start debating now on ways to counter bioterrorism that may occur in the future I warned there was.

In the first half of the World Economic Forum held since January 17th, Mr. Gates talked about the dangers of both naturally occurring diseases and intentionally produced diseases. Either naturally occurring or intentionally generated, Gates sees that there is a possibility that infectious diseases of 10,000 people will die, and at the conference held in Munich in February, these It is planned to discuss the problem of.

Published in October 2016In Telegraph's coverage article as well, Mr. Gates said that the world "is strongly believing that it is changing in a good direction", but as three "dark clouds" that must be concerned, "Risk of bringing pandemic by terrorists with biological weapons and nuclear weapons"Risk that technologies such as artificial intelligence are not appropriately used"Risk of democracy itself collapsing"I was talking about.

Mr. Sam Altmann, president of the Y combinator, also makes the same idea as Mr. Gates,In the interview of The New Yorker"The Dutch researchersVenomous avian influenza virus (H5N1)It has been said that five years since enabling airborne infection among mammals, the possibility that a lethal virus artificially created in the next 20 years will be released is not zero. "

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Because bioterrorism easily crosses the border, it is necessary for each country to cooperate and tackle counter-terrorism, Gates said. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has established an organization called Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) to promote the development of vaccines against poor marketability despite the possibility of a pandemicWelcome TrustAnd the World Economic Forum, CEPI is taking measures with about 700 million dollars (about 80 billion yen), but it is insufficient for 700 million dollars to remove the threat of pandemic, Mr. Gates I am thinking about it.