Bill Gates Says Trump Underestimates AI Risks, Warns of Rapid Transformation
Gates said AI could disrupt jobs and security faster than people expect, while the Gates Foundation pledged $1 billion to expand access to the technology.
- 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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Alarms about AI are rising. More and more people are now calling for regulation. Bill Gates says the technology could lead to “the deaths of a billion people,” according to NBC News.
Bill Gates Warns AI Is 'Powerful' Enough To 'Cause A Billion Deaths ...
After alarms about mass unemployment and bioterrorism, Gates makes his most dramatic AI warning yet. – AI is powerful enough to drive events that could cause a billion deaths, he says in an interview with NBC News.
Bill Gates’ chilling AI warning: ‘Powerful enough’ to cause 1 billion deaths
Bill Gates has warned that increasingly powerful AI systems could be used by bad actors to cause mass casualties, while calling for governments to play a greater role in regulating and monitoring the technology.
Bill Gates Warns AI Powerful Enough to Lead to ‘a Billion Deaths’
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence is a “powerful enough” tool to kill off a substantial portion of humanity, joining a growing chorus of tech leaders and employees calling attention to AI’s existential risks.
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