Gates Says Industry Can't Self-Regulate AI, Critics Call It a Compute-Racing Loop
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-16
Quoting Bill Gates' remarks that the AI industry cannot self-regulate and governments don't understand the technology either — hence his call for an international body to govern AI systems — Saleh Almenawer argues the position is a self-serving loop: "regulate us," raise billions, buy more compute, ship a bigger model, repeat.
He contends this is panic as a mood rather than a safety plan, and that real safety is sustained work, not sentiment.
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