Bill Gates once heralded the age of AI as an optimist, writing in July 2023 that “the risks of AI are real but manageable.” But three years later, the Microsoft cofounder and the onetime world’s richest man is warning that bad actors can use the technology to kill on a mass scale.
“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,” Gates said in a Meet the Press interview on Sunday. “There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”
