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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jasmine Fernández

Bill Gates offers dire AI warning that kill switch is ‘not enough’ and says tech could cause 1 billion deaths

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has warned that emergency cutoffs for artificial intelligence — the so-called “kill switch” — are not enough on their own and that the technology is powerful enough to cause 1 billion deaths.

The billionaire philanthropist argued that internal monitoring and built-in safety mechanisms are far more critical than emergency shut-off tools.

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