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Bill Gates On AI Giants: 'No One Thinks Self-Regulation Is Enough'
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AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that aired on Sunday, calling for legislation to be passed in Congress. A groundswell has risen in favour of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has some thoughts on AI safeguards, and he’d like to convey them to President Donald Trump himself. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” Gates said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, per Reuters.
“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths,” the Microsoft co-founder told NBC's Kristen Welker.