Story preview
Bill Gates warns AI is 'powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths'
About this story
- Published
- Sep 25, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC
Continue reading on the publisher site for the full article.
At a glance
Coverage
Tone
Background
Context from Wikipedia on the organisations, people and places in this story.
Bill Gates
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.
More on Wikipedia ↗