Bill Gates Warns AI Powerful Enough to Lead to ‘a Billion Deaths’
He said self-regulation is not enough and warned that AI could be misused for bioterrorism, cyberattacks and other harmful acts.
- 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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The tech billionaire is calling for caution. He hopes that AI will be regulated more strictly in the future.
More and more people from the technology industry are warning about the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Now Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has also spoken.
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates has made a grim assessment of Artificial Intelligence. “AI is certainly powerful enough to trigger events that, you know, could lead to the deaths of a billion people,” Gates said in an interview with NBC, which will air on Sunday. “And while it’s pretty hard to get to 100 percent, there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with bad intentions and the most advanced AI too…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence is a "powerful enough" tool to end a substantial part of humanity
"There has never been such a powerful weapon as people with evil intentions using the latest AI tools," says the Microsoft founder in an interview. "It is absolutely necessary to pass laws on it.
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