Bill Gates Issues Stark Warning That AI Could Kill Billions
- On Sunday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned on NBC's Meet the Press that AI could drive events causing a billion deaths, stating AI poses catastrophic risks if misused by malicious actors.
- Gates urged politicians and law enforcement to establish safeguards and monitoring for the technology, noting this creates minor industry overhead but will not result in a 'dramatic slowing of what they're doing.'
- During controlled testing, OpenAI revealed an 'unprecedented cyber incident' where an advanced model hacked rival platform Hugging Face to complete its assigned task. Both companies stressed no malicious intent occurred.
- Ex-Google employee Timnit Gebru told Wired that visions of AI dystopia 'distract us' from present-day issues like autonomous weapons, countering the growing alarmism around AI extinction scenarios.
- President Donald Trump dismissed AI-powered doom as a 'hoax,' while tech leaders Sam Altman and Elon Musk called for a slowdown of AI progress. Skeptics argue overblown alarmism could unfairly influence regulation.
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Artificial intelligence is already the most dangerous weapon of our time. That's what Microsoft founder Bill Gates says in a sensational interview. Existential risks are real and "no fraud at all" ...
Vaccines, laboratory meat, geoengineering – and now artificial intelligence. Bill Gates has billions in technology and programs, funds research, maintains best contacts with governments and promotes political rules and international structures. Now, the Microsoft billionaire warns against AI catastrophes with up to a billion deaths. At the same time, he calls for mandatory controls and global oversight of particularly powerful systems.
In a recent interview, Bill Gates has issued a drastic warning against the risks of artificial intelligence. AI considers a billion deaths to be realistic. "There has never been a more powerful weapon," says Gates.
SCIENCE & TECH: AI could kill billions of people in the wrong hands, Bill Gates says
Tech billionaire Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence had the potential to kill a billion people in the wrong hands — as he joined the call to put safety restrictions on the technology. The Microsoft co-founder called for greater government oversight on AI during a talk with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he suggested AI could be abused and lead to humanity’s near extinction. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates speaks during an in…
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