Bill Gates: AI is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-29
On NBC News, Bill Gates warned: "AI is certainly powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. There's never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools." He frames the core risk as malicious actors armed with frontier AI rather than the models alone.
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