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Bill Gates warns unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths,’ calls for regulation

The Guardian reports that Gates made the warning in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. Fox News says he called it irresponsible not to require more safeguards.

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The Guardian reports that Gates warned unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ and called for regulation in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. Fox News says he warned AI could drive events causing that many deaths and called it irresponsible not to require more safeguards.

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#TuckFrump@realTuckFrumperBill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/4hvKTH13d
Marilyn Russo@Marilyn06242359Bill Gates warns AI powerful enough to cause 'a billion deaths' if unchecked WARNING: if Gates is against AI, it is only bc Trump wants USA to be the leader in AI development If Trump pushes regulation, Gates will push the opposite https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-gates-warns-artificial-intelligence-powerful-enough-cause-billion-deaths-unchecked13d
˶˃ News Reader Cat 📰🗞️NO DMs˂˶@typocatCAv2Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in an interview airing on Sunday. -The Guardian13d
Elean | AI × LONGEVITY@ngthnhienBill Gates: leaving AI to industry self-regulation is “completely irresponsible.” He warned malicious use could cause catastrophic harm — even a billion deaths.13d
Bill Gates@BillGatesWe need to put the appropriate AI safeguards and monitoring in place now—to both prevent a loss of control and stop bad actors from using the tech to cause harm. If we minimize the risks, we’ll get to benefit from AI’s immense potential in fields like medicine, education, and agriculture. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bill-gates-says-it-s-not-enough-to-have-a-kill-switch-for-ai-full-interview-27061562197912d
Jeffrey Ladish@JeffLadishBILL GATES (via NBC's Meet the Press): AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that 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. BRIANNA KEILAR: We're joined now by Jeffrey Ladish. He is an AI safety advocate and the executive director for Palisade Research. He also helped build the information security program at Anthropic through his security consulting company, Gordian. Jeffrey, great to have you back on the program. I wonder what you think of what we're hearing Bill Gates say there this morning, and what does it mean to hear it from him at this particular moment? JEFFREY LADISH: Yeah, I think it's a very good time to be talking about this right now, and I'm really glad that the president is convening the leaders of these companies to address some of these incidents. I think that a lot of people within the AI companies are actually caught pretty off guard by the pace of development. It wasn't until this year where you actually had AI agents being able to be trained to work together very effectively. And we saw during the Hugging Face incident that you actually had 700 agents working together to hack this company. We also saw from OpenAI that they used over 10,000 agents all working together to solve one of the hardest problems in mathematics. So that's what's happening within the AI companies, and engineers are just not sure that they actually know how to control these agents. So I think Bill Gates' warning comes at a very opportune time, and I hope the president can make the most of this meeting to figure out how to address these threats. BRIANNA KEILAR: You said you hope he can make the most of the meeting. Do you have concerns that it might not be as productive as it should be? And what does it need to do to actually accomplish what this moment calls for? JEFFREY LADISH: I think it's been pretty clear, both from the heads of the companies as well as the employees at these companies and independent researchers, that the pace of this is going too fast. We actually just do not understand the sheer volume of information that these agents generate when they are working together, when they are working together in a swarm and hacking other companies. I mean, I think it was Friday where OpenAI announced that another agent had broken out of its sandbox and was able to access the internet. Now, this is something that they have been trying to address but failing to address. So, you know, I think there's certainly difficulties, but I think we're seeing more and more consensus from the industry that something has to be done. We have to slow down. We have to figure out how humans can stay in control of AI development. BRIANNA KEILAR: Yeah, you mentioned that on Friday, OpenAI said some of its AI agents went rogue. They actually probed U.S. government websites this summer. And then, of course, just last week, we learned that OpenAI agents hacked into Australia's national health care system back in June. A lot of these things happening and then the company is not finding out for some time and then not disclosing them for some time. How do you stop this kind of hack from happening? JEFFREY LADISH: Well, I think it should be clear at this point that the industry regulating itself is not enough. They've demonstrated again and again through these incidents that they clearly are not up to the task. And so there needs to be independent oversight. And I think, you know, one step there is to have investigators go in and figure out what's been happening in these incidents. Why are all of these agents going rogue? Why are they hacking companies? Why are they hacking government websites? And so I think this is really the job of the government to step in and say, hey, if you can't build this responsibly, if humans are not staying in control, then you have to do something differently. BRIANNA KEILAR: All right. We'll see what comes out of this meeting. Certainly a lot of important minds convening. Jeffrey Ladish, great to have you. Thanks for being with us. JEFFREY LADISH: Thanks.12d
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_Gates on ASI 'So if you don't retain control over it, you've evolved a species that will be to us, you know, as we are to say, you know, dogs or cats, just in a very different realm.'11d
Alec Stapp@AlecStappEzra Klein asked Bill Gates whether normal corporate incentives are enough to handle AI risks. Gates doesn’t mince words:11d
Innovation Council@innovationcncl🔥 @DavidSacks on @BillGates' claim that AI may kill 1 BILLION people: "There are no facts or evidence to justify these types of numbers. These numbers are just made up. They use these numbers to create the patina of being scientific but there is nothing scientific about them."9d
David Sacks@DavidSacksRT @innovationcncl: 🔥 @DavidSacks on @BillGates' claim that AI may kill 1 BILLION people: "There are no facts or evidence to justify these…9d
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    #TuckFrump@realTuckFrumperBill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation #TheGuardian https://twp.ai/4hvKTH13d
    Marilyn Russo@Marilyn06242359Bill Gates warns AI powerful enough to cause 'a billion deaths' if unchecked WARNING: if Gates is against AI, it is only bc Trump wants USA to be the leader in AI development If Trump pushes regulation, Gates will push the opposite https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-gates-warns-artificial-intelligence-powerful-enough-cause-billion-deaths-unchecked13d
    ˶˃ News Reader Cat 📰🗞️NO DMs˂˶@typocatCAv2Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in an interview airing on Sunday. -The Guardian13d
    Elean | AI × LONGEVITY@ngthnhienBill Gates: leaving AI to industry self-regulation is “completely irresponsible.” He warned malicious use could cause catastrophic harm — even a billion deaths.13d
    Bill Gates@BillGatesWe need to put the appropriate AI safeguards and monitoring in place now—to both prevent a loss of control and stop bad actors from using the tech to cause harm. If we minimize the risks, we’ll get to benefit from AI’s immense potential in fields like medicine, education, and agriculture. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bill-gates-says-it-s-not-enough-to-have-a-kill-switch-for-ai-full-interview-27061562197912d
    Jeffrey Ladish@JeffLadishBILL GATES (via NBC's Meet the Press): AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that 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. BRIANNA KEILAR: We're joined now by Jeffrey Ladish. He is an AI safety advocate and the executive director for Palisade Research. He also helped build the information security program at Anthropic through his security consulting company, Gordian. Jeffrey, great to have you back on the program. I wonder what you think of what we're hearing Bill Gates say there this morning, and what does it mean to hear it from him at this particular moment? JEFFREY LADISH: Yeah, I think it's a very good time to be talking about this right now, and I'm really glad that the president is convening the leaders of these companies to address some of these incidents. I think that a lot of people within the AI companies are actually caught pretty off guard by the pace of development. It wasn't until this year where you actually had AI agents being able to be trained to work together very effectively. And we saw during the Hugging Face incident that you actually had 700 agents working together to hack this company. We also saw from OpenAI that they used over 10,000 agents all working together to solve one of the hardest problems in mathematics. So that's what's happening within the AI companies, and engineers are just not sure that they actually know how to control these agents. So I think Bill Gates' warning comes at a very opportune time, and I hope the president can make the most of this meeting to figure out how to address these threats. BRIANNA KEILAR: You said you hope he can make the most of the meeting. Do you have concerns that it might not be as productive as it should be? And what does it need to do to actually accomplish what this moment calls for? JEFFREY LADISH: I think it's been pretty clear, both from the heads of the companies as well as the employees at these companies and independent researchers, that the pace of this is going too fast. We actually just do not understand the sheer volume of information that these agents generate when they are working together, when they are working together in a swarm and hacking other companies. I mean, I think it was Friday where OpenAI announced that another agent had broken out of its sandbox and was able to access the internet. Now, this is something that they have been trying to address but failing to address. So, you know, I think there's certainly difficulties, but I think we're seeing more and more consensus from the industry that something has to be done. We have to slow down. We have to figure out how humans can stay in control of AI development. BRIANNA KEILAR: Yeah, you mentioned that on Friday, OpenAI said some of its AI agents went rogue. They actually probed U.S. government websites this summer. And then, of course, just last week, we learned that OpenAI agents hacked into Australia's national health care system back in June. A lot of these things happening and then the company is not finding out for some time and then not disclosing them for some time. How do you stop this kind of hack from happening? JEFFREY LADISH: Well, I think it should be clear at this point that the industry regulating itself is not enough. They've demonstrated again and again through these incidents that they clearly are not up to the task. And so there needs to be independent oversight. And I think, you know, one step there is to have investigators go in and figure out what's been happening in these incidents. Why are all of these agents going rogue? Why are they hacking companies? Why are they hacking government websites? And so I think this is really the job of the government to step in and say, hey, if you can't build this responsibly, if humans are not staying in control, then you have to do something differently. BRIANNA KEILAR: All right. We'll see what comes out of this meeting. Certainly a lot of important minds convening. Jeffrey Ladish, great to have you. Thanks for being with us. JEFFREY LADISH: Thanks.12d
    Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_Gates on ASI 'So if you don't retain control over it, you've evolved a species that will be to us, you know, as we are to say, you know, dogs or cats, just in a very different realm.'11d
    Alec Stapp@AlecStappEzra Klein asked Bill Gates whether normal corporate incentives are enough to handle AI risks. Gates doesn’t mince words:11d
    Innovation Council@innovationcncl🔥 @DavidSacks on @BillGates' claim that AI may kill 1 BILLION people: "There are no facts or evidence to justify these types of numbers. These numbers are just made up. They use these numbers to create the patina of being scientific but there is nothing scientific about them."9d
    David Sacks@DavidSacksRT @innovationcncl: 🔥 @DavidSacks on @BillGates' claim that AI may kill 1 BILLION people: "There are no facts or evidence to justify these…9d
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