Bill Gates warns of ‘billion human deaths’ from AI

AI is powerful enough to trigger events that will lead to a billion deaths. This opinion was expressed in an interview for the program Meet the Press on NBC, Microsoft co-founder, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates. The full interview will air on the channel on September 27.

There has never been a weapon as powerful as a combination of people with bad intentions and the latest AI tools. Bill Gates urged lawmakers in Washington to regulate the development of AI. “No one believes that self-regulation is enough,” he said, and answered in the affirmative when asked whether there should be some kind of legislation in Washington on this issue. “It is necessary that law enforcement agencies and politicians get involved in the discussion of what security and monitoring measures should be,” he said. This should be a mandatory requirement. For the industry, this will entail some overhead but will not lead to a drastic slowdown.”.

Earlier, concerns about the rapid development of AI were expressed by OpenAI head Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Google head Sundar Pichai, as well as many scientists and researchers. Bill Gates also published an essay on his blog last month expressing concern about the risk of massive loss of jobs to people in the context of the development of AI and made a number of proposals on this issue.

Alena Miklashevskaya