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Bill Gates Warns AI Powerful Enough to Lead to ‘a Billion Deaths’

  • On Monday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned on CBS Mornings that society underestimates artificial intelligence risks, contradicting President Donald Trump's recent dismissal of such concerns as a "hoax."
  • Trump has framed AI development as an international competition, declaring "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!" and arguing on Truth Social that opposition to data centres could favor China while rejecting calls for additional "guardrails."
  • Gates described AI as an "evolutionary event" moving faster than previous revolutions, warning that sophisticated systems could be misused for bioterrorism or financial hacks while reshaping law and medicine within a decade.
  • The Gates Foundation is spending $1 billion over two years to support projects in education, health care, and agriculture, targeting 3.4 billion people whose languages remain underrepresented in current AI models.
  • Experts argue that society lacks necessary policies to manage upcoming economic disruption from advanced AI systems, highlighting a critical gap between rapid technological adoption and public readiness for such transformation.
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According to Bill Gates, the development of artificial intelligence should be restrained by legislation.

·Helsinki, Finland
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Bill Gates calls AI regulation "absolutely necessary," warning that self-regulation by companies is not enough to address the risks posed by the new technology. The post Bill Gates' grim warning about AI: "It could lead to billions of deaths" appeared first on in.gr.

·Greece
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Bill Gates warned that AI could kill a billion people and gradually wipe out humanity. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Gates said AI now has the power to cause events with massive human casualties. "Artificial intelligence is certainly powerful enough to cause events that, you know, kill a billion people," he says in an excerpt from the interview published by NBC. Gates also notes that while it's extremely difficult to achieve 100% pr…

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In the history of the world, there has never been such a dangerous couple, says the billionaire, as people with bad intentions and artificial intelligence.

·Hungary
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Eesti Rahvusringhääling broke the news in Tallinn, Estonia on Sunday, September 20, 2026.
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