Bill Gates has some serious fears about how AI can be misused.
The cofounder of Microsoft made grave warnings about the tech in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying that “AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths.”
Gates also said that the industry needs government regulation. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” he said.
Gates’ comments echo those of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who said in a September essay calling on frontier AI companies to slow down development that the “most effective method of pacing is via…
