With the availability of a wide range of online courses, taught by globally-renowned professors, students today have unprecedented access to high-quality education, said Microsoft Cofounder Bill Gates. As a result, the ability to learn from top educators has widened opportunity to a broader swath of students.

“If you are a student, this is the best time ever,” Gates said to an audience during a wide-ranging discussion centered around artificial intelligence (AI) at an Economic Club of New York dinner Thursday that was livestreamed.

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