Bill Gates has one of the best seats in the room. On August 26 he reported that almost no one outside the industry is paying attention. On August 26, Bill Gates published roughly six thousand words on artificial intelligence. It is the first of several he plans on the subject. In the accompanying interview he calls it a shrill paper, and says he had not expected to be the shrillest voice arguing that society is not paying attention. The alarm itself is familiar. Entry-level white-collar work d