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

Gates said malicious actors could use advanced AI to cause mass harm and argued that lawmakers must set required safeguards.

  • 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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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has argued for the need to regulate artificial intelligence, while the heads of the largest American AI labs are also calling for a slowdown in the pace of development, but decision-makers in Washington have not yet taken action, NBC reported.

·Budapest, Hungary
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Artificial intelligence is powerful enough to kill a billion people if it falls into the wrong hands, alerted Bill Gates, while Microsoft's co-founder advocated stricter government regulation for technology. Exclusive material for subscribers. To have full access, access the link of the subject and register.

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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According to Bill Gates, the development of artificial intelligence should be restrained by legislation.

·Helsinki, Finland
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WASHINGTON - Microsoft's support Bill Gates is responsible for the best inteligencia at the end of the day, for "millions of dollars", and for the time being, for regulatio te tehnologije. “AI je svakako dovoljno moćan da pokrene […] Objava Bill Gates tvrdi da bi AI bi mogao uzrokovati milijardu mrtvih ako ga se ne regulira pojavila se prvi puta na Novi list.

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