Epstein-linked Bill Gates complains he has been 'a subject of misinformation' and warns of climate change dangers despite owning four private jets

Bill Gates has railed against being 'a taxable of misinformation' and warned that humanity indispensable bash much to combat climate change - contempt owning 4 backstage jets. 

The Microsoft founder, who has struggled to unrecorded down a erstwhile relation with Jeffrey Epstein, made the comments during an quality connected NBC's Today programme to beforehand his caller Netflix bid astir AI, misinformation and malaria.  

'I'm precise fortunate I get to enactment connected A.I. I get to enactment connected planetary health,' Gates, 68, said portion speaking astir the show, The Future With Bill Gates. 

'Misinformation is the 1 where, you know, I person been a taxable of misinformation. I talked to Lady Gaga who had it possibly adjacent worse.'

Pop icon Gaga features connected Gates' caller show - wherever she shares her thoughts astir rumors during the aboriginal days of her vocation that she was secretly a man. 

Gates, who owns a fleet of 4 backstage jets, was besides pressed astir clime alteration during the interrogation with Today. 

When asked whether his grandchildren had accelerated his urgency to 'fix things' regarding the clime crisis, helium said: 'Oh, definitely.

'My archetypal grandchild is really present successful New York City and couldn't beryllium cuter. She's astir 1 oregon truthful now.

'And we're not making capable progress, you know, and the harm benignant of accumulates implicit time.

'So the request to innovate - I met a batch of young activists who are truly harsh about, you know, we're not doing capable I recovered that, you know, inspiring and motivating.'

'There are astir excessively galore causes close now,' added Gates, whose existent nett worthy is an estimated $138.6 billion.

'You've got wars, you've got involvement payments, it's a clip wherever making definite we prime the close things and acceptable our priorities volition beryllium challenging but important.' 

Gates was not asked astir his ain imprint connected the satellite done his usage of fossil-fuel guzzling backstage jets - thing helium has antecedently defended by citing his efforts to alteration his c footprint successful different ways. 

The tech tycoon previously told the BBC he was 'not portion of the problem' due to the fact that of the magnitude of wealth helium pays Climeworks - a institution which, for a monthly fee, offsets c emissions.

Gates besides spoke astir AI, revealing that helium uses the exertion to summarize a gathering oregon publication that helium doesn't person clip to read, and adjacent to draught speeches. 

'It tin adjacent constitute poems and songs successful a mode that is amazingly creative,' helium said.

'It's truthful powerful, it's the archetypal exertion that is happening precise quickly, and there's nary limit,' Gates added. 

The Microsoft laminitis has besides been linked to Jeffrey Epstein - not slightest through a publication released this summer which claims helium was erstwhile 'the brightest star' successful the financier's orbit. 

Epstein had acceptable his sights connected Gates successful 2010 erstwhile helium and chap billionaire Warren Buffett launched The Giving Pledge, a charitable run nether which they vowed to donate 99 percent of their wealth.  

To Epstein, their charitable inaugural was a imaginable caller 'way to marque money' and reconstruct his nationalist image, according to caller biography, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World.

It would let Epstein to launder his estimation aft his 2008 condemnation for procuring underaged girls saw him service a little stint successful jailhouse and made him a registered enactment offender.

In the book, which was released August 13, New York Times writer Anupreeta Das writes that Epstein past began to 'tunnel his mode into Gates's orbit' with spectacular results.

The 2 men became friends arsenic they worked connected a wellness money for billionaires with Gates adjacent calling Epstein 'my buddy'.

Epstein's outrageous manner was an 'adventure' for nerdy Gates who chafed astatine his overscheduled beingness joined to a woman committed to monogamy, Das writes.

Emails betwixt the 2 men adjacent referred to Gates visiting 1 of Epstein's homes for 'Big Macs', which immoderate took to mean young girls.

Gates, 68, denies astir of the accusations successful the book, saying Das relied 'almost exclusively connected second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources'. 

Gates' ex-wife Melinda has said that Bill's enactment with Epstein - who she branded 'abhorrent' - yet led to their divorce.