Tech billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has offered a chilling warning on the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
While appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Gates called for greater government oversight of the emerging tech, while sharing that it could cause ‘a billion deaths.’
‘AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,’ Gates told Meet the Press moderator Kirsten Welker, before adding, ‘So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100 per cent [of humanity], there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest
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