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5 Books I Loved in 2018

By Bill Gates

Educated, by Tara Westover. Tara never went to school or

visited a doctor until she left home at 17. I never thought I’d relate
to a story about growing up in a Mormon survivalist household, but
she’s such a good writer that she got me to reflect on my own life

while reading about her extreme childhood. Melinda and I loved
this memoir of a young woman whose thirst for learning was so
strong that she ended up getting a Ph.D. from Cambridge

University.

Army of None, by Paul Scharre. Autonomous weapons aren’t
exactly top of mind for most around the holidays, but this thought-

provoking look at A.I. in warfare is hard to put down. It’s an
immensely complicated topic, but Scharre offers clear explanations
and presents both the pros and cons of machine-driven warfare. His

fluency with the subject should come as no surprise: he’s a veteran
who helped draft the U.S. government’s policy on autonomous

weapons.

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