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Bill Gates says AI ‘powerful enough’ to cause ‘a billion deaths’
Gates tells Meet the Press that AI is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths. A warning is useful only if voters can act on it.
When Bill Gates tells NBC that AI is powerful enough to kill a billion people in the wrong hands, that is not a reason to surrender the frontier. It is a reason to elect people who will treat safeguards as a governing problem, not a company memo.
Self-regulation by the firms that built the systems is not a statute. Panic is not a policy. Neither is “regulate nothing.” America still has to lead—and keep humans accountable.
AI Accountability Super PAC will score candidates on evaluation, cybersecurity, and meaningful human accountability—and spend independently so that warning is on the ballot.