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Bill Gates says getting countries to agree on AI regulations will be harder than Cold War-era nuclear negotiations
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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be “more difficult” than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons.
Key facts
- The Gates Foundation, he added, is working with 60 AI companies to expand the reliable languages they offer
- In African languages, the error rate will be about 10 times higher,” he said, adding that errors can be “dangerous
- In a post on Truth Social ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Trump wrote: “Super Intelligence (SI) will be a big topic of discussion, but the reporter want to leave it exactly
- Days later, two of the nation’s leading AI CEOs, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI, agreed there is a need to slow the pace of AI development amid fears the tech would soon
Summary
“This is more difficult than that was,” Gates told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Wednesday during a wide-ranging discussion on AI that aired Sunday. His remarks came as he spoke about President Donald Trump’s stance against regulating AI. Gates argued Wednesday that regulating AI companies by imposing monitoring systems would not hamper the U.S. in any race with China to develop superior technology. “What he said is fine, but I think after he hears from me and other people, including that this does not handicap us in whatever he thinks the nation-state race is, that, you know, we will come to a consensus,” the tech mogul said.