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Bill Gates confirms unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
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Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence ( AI ), saying airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”.
Key facts
- An external review commissioned by Gates’s philanthropic foundation and released in July determined that he was among several organization staffers and leaders who had collectively held about 30
- Progressive US senator Bernie Sanders on 23 September proposed legislation that would temporarily pause advanced AI development while guardrails to the technology are put in place
- The essay’s authors, Mohamed Hussein and Granate Kim of the No Azure for Apartheid group, furthermore warned that “horrors wrought by AI” are also being seen in the US
- His fellow tech moguls including Sam Altman and Elon Musk have joined Gates in calling for a slowdown of the development of AI, which some experts theorize could precipitate the mass destruction
Summary
“You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said to Kristen Welker, the NBC Meet the Press host. Using a term meant to describe an expense required to run a business, Gates continued: “It will be a little bit of overhead for the industry, but not a dramatic slowing of what they’re doing.