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Eleanor Pringle

Bill Gates has rejected Elon Musk-backed plan to pause development of advanced A.I.

Bill Gates, one of the founders of the Microsoft Corporation (Credit: Kim Hong-Ji—Pool/Getty Images)

Founder-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates has poured cold water on a proposal to ban the development of powerful A.I. for six months in order to get better planning and management parameters in place.

Last week, Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, and more than 1,100 other high-profile technologists and artificial intelligence researchers signed an open letter calling for a pause in A.I. development.

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