Bill Gates Warns AI Could Kill a Billion People in Wrong Hands, Urges Tighter Regulation
FT · x · 2026-09-25
The Financial Times reports that Bill Gates warned AI is 'powerful enough to kill a billion people' if it falls into the wrong hands, as the Microsoft co-founder urged governments to impose tougher regulation on the technology — one of his starkest statements yet on frontier AI risk.
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