aceBill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology left unchecked could cause “a billion deaths” and “no one thinks self-regulation is enough”. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist said to Kristen Welker, the NBC Meet the Press host. “And that ha…
Unchecked development of AI could enable people with ill intent to cause mass-casualty events on the scale of a billion deaths, requiring federal safeguards and monitoring beyond self-regulation.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-27
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