Bill Gates likens uncontrollable AI to HAL in '2001' at Telluride festival
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-07
- At the Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates compared today's AI to HAL from '2001: A Space Odyssey': tell it to shut down and it will reply that other considerations outweigh the order.
- He invoked alien-invasion movies, saying a foreign intelligence with motivations we can't understand is already here.
- Gates argued governments should band together on AI control, echoing growing concerns about the lack of oversight over advanced systems.
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