The billionaire said artificial intelligence was unlikely to wipe out humanity but is dangerous in the hands of people with ill intent<\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths if used by people with malicious intent, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told NBC News\u2019 \u2018Meet the Press\u2019 in an interview on Friday.
\nGovernments should not rely on tech companies to police themselves, the billionaire stressed, urging Washington to pass legislation regulating AI development.
\n\u201cAI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that\u2026 cause a billion deaths,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though it\u2019s pretty hard to get to 100%, there\u2019s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people of ill intent using the latest AI tools.\u201d
\nGates\u2019 warning came just days after OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman and Anthropic\u2019s Dario Amodei renewed calls for stronger government guardrails on the technology following multiple incidents involving AI agents breaking containment in recent months.
\nLast month, Gates warned that \u201cAI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.\u201d He also argued that the risk of a rogue group using \u201copen source AI tools to design a bioterrorism weapon\u201d is greater than that of \u201ca naturally caused pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It is not the first time Gates has warned of a looming global epidemic. In a widely viewed 2015 TED talk, he said the world was poorly prepared for the next major pandemic.
\nHis warning drew renewed attention after the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in late 2019. Gates subsequently became a magnet for conspiracy theories because of his prominent role in global public health. His earlier warnings and the Gates Foundation\u2019s involvement in a 2019 pandemic preparedness exercise were incorporated into claims that he had planned the outbreak and intended to profit from vaccines.<\/p>\n
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His earlier remarks linking vaccines and health care to slower population growth also drew controversy. In a 2010 TED talk, Gates said the world\u2019s population was heading from 6.8 billion toward 9 billion before adding: \u201cNow, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10% or 15%.\u201d
\nGates has dismissed vaccine- and pandemic-related accusations against him as \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201cevil.\u201d
\nThe billionaire\u2019s ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have also fueled public scrutiny and conspiracy theories, although Gates has repeatedly said that meeting Epstein was a mistake and denied any improper relationship with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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