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Bill Gates: "If Malicious Forces Use AI, One Billion People Could Die"
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Artificial intelligence is now powerful enough to cause catastrophic harm, Bill Gates warned.
Bill Gates Warns AI Could Kill 1 Billion, Urges Regulation Microsoft co-founder stresses government oversight amid growing AI safety concerns
In an interview with NBC partially released on the 25th , Gates warned, "AI is certainly powerful enough to trigger an event resulting in the deaths of one billion people," adding, "While an event affecting 100 percent of humanity is very difficult, there has never been a weapon as powerful as malicious…