Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder travelled to India, where his foundation works with the government on delivering AI for social good, earlier this week and was advertised as speaking at the international summit shortly after the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.

But Gates suddenly withdrew on Thursday morning, hours before he was due to address delegates, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.

The Gates Foundation said in a statement: “After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remains on the AI summit’s key priorities, Mr Gates will not be delivering his keynote address…”

The move came less than 48 hours after the Gates Foundation had insisted: “Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit. He will be delivering his keynote as scheduled.”

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    Because they don’t really care. They know a lot of us know, and they know we won’t do anything because enough people believe what they’re told.

    The dead body’s ear didn’t match the living ear.

    His online accounts were active after he supposedly died.

    He was literally part of a global conspiracy.

    His private plane went on a long flight after he supposedly died.

    Remember, Trump is “the dog who never barked” (quote from Epsteins emails)

    Looks like he didn’t bark again.

    It’s reasonable to believe he’s alive. No hard evidence, though.

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      Well, your photos should certainly be hard evidence. What’s the source on those, so they can be vetted a little deeper?

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          6 hours ago

          I’m perhaps web3 could have solved that problem via metadata lineage or something. Too bad it seems to have died as a concept.

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            Adding every picture I take on my phone to the blockchain is an enormous invasion of my privacy, and the number of times where having a cryptographically secure hash on the blockchain to prove a photo’s authenticity is minuscule. Especially in a world where people eagerly believe the most ludicrous bullshit because it reinforces their worldview, in spite of a mountain of evidence to contradict it.