This UN week, Bill Gates is touting a new coalition that aims to make AI more inclusive

Bill Gates told his foundation’s Goalkeepers gathering that “increased generosity” and “the smart use of AI” together could accelerate the fight against inequality, urging the world’s richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence toward what he considers “lifesaving innovations.”“We failed to build in the right human values and ways of keeping our moral code controlling what these AIs do,” Gates, the foundation’s chair, said during a Monday conversation with political commentator Van Jones at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.The Gates Foundation’s annual event, usually hosted the week of the United Nations’ high-level meetings, opened with a reminder: 26 of the world’s 34 wealthiest nations decreased development aid to poorer countries last year. Meanwhile, the U.N. has warned that progress on its sustainable development goals—lofty targets to reduce poverty, improve health and protect the environment by 2030—is “slow and uneven.”The contraction comes at a time when Gates suggested “we have some of the best innovations ever to improve people’s lives.” His foundation spent much of its two-hour event elevating educators, farmers and health workers…