Bill Gates Sounds the Alarm on AI and the Billion Death Warning

Artificial intelligence has been hailed as one of the most transformative technologies of the modern era, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is warning that its darker possibilities deserve serious attention before the technology advances even further. During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gates raised the possibility of an AI-enabled catastrophe on an extraordinary scale, saying advanced artificial intelligence could be powerful enough to contribute to events resulting in a billion deaths if combined with malicious intent. The warning wasn’t that AI itself is destined to cause such a disaster. Instead, Gates focused on what could happen when...