Posted on 09/27/2026 12:48:24 PM PDT by DFG
Tech billionaire Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence had the potential to kill a billion people in the wrong hands — as he joined the call to put safety restrictions on the technology.
The Microsoft co-founder called for greater government oversight on AI during a talk with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he suggested AI could be abused and lead to humanity’s near extinction.
“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,” he warned.
“So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100% [of humanity], there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,” he added.
Gates explained that without the proper guardrails in place, it would be simple for potential terrorists or anyone with ill intent to use the tech to develop weapons or biological horrors.
“I wish it was easier to distinguish good intent, like I want to design a new drug for a disease, versus negative intent, which is I want to design a tool of bioterrorism,” he added.
Tech leaders have sounded the alarm over the potential dangers of AI earlier this month after Anthropic released a report on the issue, including notes that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen tried to use the tech to build guided ballistic missiles.
Both Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, have agreed that the pace of AI development should be slowed.
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Hey, Bill! Could you provide very-specific ways how AI could kill about 15% of the earth’s population? Thanks! /s
People like this might be rich, but their stupidity is epic.
Let’s start with bill
Didn’t Fauci funded bat viruses already do that?
Bill isnt concerned at all about this. He and his family have always been tied to the hip of Planned Parenthood, same with his ex-wife. Lotsa support and money from them to murder babies. He cant claim with any credibility hes worried about lots of people being killed.
I’ve been here for 50 years.
I don’t think AI can do worse. Bring it.
Meet Their Press.
The motive is the more people that AI kills, the less people that can be vaccinated so Gates can kill them...hence the less money he can make.
Gates has nearly made as much money from the vaccination scam as he’s done from Microsoft stock, especially because most of the money he’s made from the vaccination scam has gone untaxed, because of the Gates Foundation.
The motive is the more people that AI kills, the less people that can be vaccinated so Gates can kill them...hence the less money he can make.
Gates has nearly made as much money from the vaccination scam as he’s done from Microsoft stock, especially because most of the money he’s made from the vaccination scam has gone untaxed, because of the Gates Foundation.
Wait…isn’t he one of those WEF people who want the Earth’s population reduced to one half billion? Why would he worry?
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