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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be \u201cmore difficult\u201d than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons.
\u201cThis is more difficult than that was,\u201d Gates told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Wednesday during a wide-ranging discussion on AI that aired Sunday.
His remarks came as he spoke about President Donald Trump\u2019s stance against regulating AI. The president earlier this month rejected calls for the federal government to impose guardrails for companies building AI models, saying in a post on Truth Social<\/a>, \u201cWHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so.\u201d
Gates argued Wednesday that regulating AI companies by imposing monitoring systems would not hamper the U.S. in any race with China to develop superior technology.
\u201cWhat he said is fine, but I think after he hears from me and other people, including that this does not handicap us in whatever he thinks the nation-state race is, that, you know, we will come to a consensus,\u201d the tech mogul said.
Gates later pointed to other times the U.S. has led the world in coming up with broad agreements to protect humanity.
\u201cSince World War II, the U.S. should be very proud that when there have been global challenges, we, in a way that was benign, where we had friends and allies coming along with us, you know, aviation safety, ozone layer, nuclear weapons, a lot of things where we played the fair actor, not aggrandizing whatever our unique strengths were,\u201d he told moderator Kristen Welker. \u201cAnd AI is one we\u2019re going to have to go back to this, \u2018Hey, humanity is all in this together.\u2019\u201d
Concerns about AI reached a fever pitch this month after Jacob Coxon, a whistleblower who had recently resigned from Anthropic, <\/a>issued a public warning: \u201cThe people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.\u201d
Days later, two of the nation\u2019s leading AI CEOs \u2014 Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI \u2014 agreed there is a need to slow the pace<\/a> of AI development amid fears the tech would soon be capable of \u201csuperintelligence\u201d that outpaces human thinking.
In a blog post, Amodei wrote that \u201cfrontier\u201d AI companies must slow down the pace of AI development but only to a point where the companies still lead China. He also urged global coordination between democratic and authoritarian governments to create regulations.
In a Sunday interview on \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said the U.S. and China need to form a working group with technology experts from both countries to come to an agreement on AI.
Banning self-improving AI models \u201cshould not be controversial,\u201d he said, arguing that China also did not want to \u201close control over AI models.\u201d
\u201cI do believe the United States can lead on a treaty that is both enforceable and verifiable, where we ban recursive, self-improving AI, and we have some monitoring of these frontier labs,\u201d the congressman said.
In recent weeks, both Anthropic and OpenAI <\/strong>have announced plans to track the behavior of AI agents<\/a> after OpenAI flagged multiple incidents in which its agents behaved in a concerning way<\/a>, including by hacking an outside company without being told to do so.
In a post<\/a> on Truth Social ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Trump wrote: \u201cSuper Intelligence (SI) will be a big topic of discussion, but I want to leave it exactly where it is. That is China\u2019s position also.\u201d
Following the Trump-Xi summit, the White House said the two countries established a dialogue to \u201cexchange views on risks and benefits\u201d of artificial intelligence. The next \u201cexchange\u201d is expected to take place by November. <\/strong>
While many have been calling for regulations that would limit AI from destroying humanity, Gates said on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d that he believes there should be guardrails in place to prevent mass-casualty events that could be coordinated with the help of AI today.
\u201cThe most dangerous thing we\u2019re facing right now is people with bad intent using AI. You know, so somebody who wants to defraud an individual or wants to shut down the electric network or scramble bank accounts, they are now empowered,\u201d the philanthropist said.
\u201cHistorically, countries had cyberattack teams and they could think of things like bioterror weapons,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, small groups with AI can do what only the biggest countries could do. So it\u2019s really the bad intent plus AI that looms as a major threat. Unless governments insist on various safeguards, you know, we will see a lot of big, negative things because we\u2019re not safeguarding.\u201d
Gates specifically said monitoring, \u201cwhere you\u2019re watching what the AI is doing,\u201d is an important safeguard to introduce in each AI lab.
\u201cLaw enforcement is going to get called up on all these fraud events or, you know, transmission shutdown events,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd their ability to see what\u2019s going on is going to be nil unless the monitoring and safeguards are built into the AI.\u201d
Plus, Gates said, these kinds of safety features can be added to current AI systems without slowing down the pace of development.
\u201cThat\u2019s another debate \u2014 of should we slow down or not,\u201d he said. \u201cBut deciding to put the safeguards and monitoring in, that\u2019s a choice we have. And the only question is, Do we do that before or after there\u2019s some large-scale cyberattacks or bioattacks?\u201d
One bipartisan proposal in Congress would require a \u201ckill switch,\u201d or a way for AI companies to immediately suspend or shut down their AI services if a dangerous situation occurs.
Gates said \u201cit\u2019s not enough to have a kill switch\u201d and renewed his calls for internal monitoring and safeguards.
\u201cI would never want to say I\u2019m against a kill switch,\u201d he added. \u201cBut when you\u2019re trying to moderate the bad behavior, you need insight and records of what\u2019s being done. So the kill switch alone would not prevent these tragedies.\u201d
The philanthropist, who now leads the Gates Foundation, also spoke about the group\u2019s work expanding AI access to countries where English isn\u2019t the primary language.
\u201cAI models have gotten very good at recognizing English and about a dozen other mainstream languages. And so as you talk about your health, it\u2019s going to accurately record that and be able to help you. In African languages, the error rate will be about 10 times higher,\u201d he said, adding that errors can be \u201cvery dangerous.\u201d
The Gates Foundation, he added, is working with 60 AI companies to expand the reliable languages they offer.
\u201cWe have a very concrete timeline to improve the quality, to benchmark and then say, \u2018OK, this is good enough. You can do a health interview or an education session in this language,\u2019\u201d he added, saying he hopes that within five years every language that a million or more people speak will be close to the quality of English on these platforms.
Gates said his foundation is also using AI in its own work.
\u201cIt\u2019s helping me in the foundation work,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, \u2018What\u2019s the latest on malaria? What\u2019s the latest on malnutrition?\u2019 It\u2019s allowing the Gates Foundation, which will spend all its money over the next 19 years \u2014 you know, it\u2019s got a bit over $200 billion \u2014 that money will be far, far better spent because we\u2019re using AI to guide our work.\u201d
In the last year, Gates has also faced scrutiny for his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. When the Justice Department released a trove of files related to Epstein at the direction of federal lawmakers, Gates\u2019 name appeared<\/a> multiple times, including in emails from Epstein suggesting that Gates had extramarital affairs.
The Microsoft co-founder has since called his past relationship with Epstein \u201cfoolish\u201d and testified to House lawmakers<\/a> in June that he did not engage in illegal activity with Epstein.
On Wednesday, Gates accused Epstein of using their friendship to boost his reputation.
\u201cI was told by Jeffrey after I met him that he could help raise billions of dollars for global health \u2014 you know, he wouldn\u2019t be paid, he would have no role. That proved to be a complete dead end. So my spending time with him, like many other people, kind of helped his reputation. You know, that\u2019s very regrettable,\u201d he said.
Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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