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American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person in their The World's Billionaires list for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007.
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Gates used to be one of AI’s optimists, but now he calls it “the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has pushed back against the growing calls for an AI ‘Kill Switch’, arguing that the discussion misses the more immediate dangers posed by artificial intelligence and reflects a misunderstanding of how current systems operate. Speaking in an interview with NBC News, Gates said AI systems…
Recent incidents involving AI agents behaving in unexpected ways have raised questions about how much control humans really have over increasingly autonomous systems. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says a “kill switch” for AI isn’t enough as concerns grow over agents going beyond their instruction