Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi
Gates warns AI could displace workers and increase safety risks, and he urges governments to reserve up to 40% of jobs for people.
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates released a memo on Wednesday urging urgent policy action on artificial intelligence, proposing a 'robot tax' on companies using automation to replace human labor and calling for new international oversight institutions.
- Gates warned that the 'turbulent AI era' has arrived, threatening to erase job categories, supercharge fraud and deepfakes, and increase bioterrorism risks—now 50 times the natural pandemic risk—while current global responses remain insufficient.
- To discourage replacing workers with machines, Gates proposed taxing companies for using AI and suggested society reserve up to 40% of jobs for humans, describing this 'Human Reserved' work as essential to preventing economic catastrophe.
- He advocated for new national and international bodies modeled on nuclear weapons inspections and aviation rules to regulate AI, specifically requiring mandatory monitoring of models capable of engineering deadly new diseases.
- Seeking global cooperation, Gates plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year to propose AI risk mitigation efforts, believing China might support restricting dangerous model releases if the United States acts first.
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Bill Gates warns world leaders are unprepared for AI’s biggest risks
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, elaborated on his concerns about artificial intelligence and said world leaders are unprepared for the risks. This comes despite Gates being a self-professed optimist when it comes to artificial intelligence. “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,” Gates wrote in an essay, shared with Fortune ahead of publication. “The challenge is monumental.” Gates sai…
Bill Gates, warned this Wednesday that the world is not prepared for the consequences that artificial intelligence (AI) will bring, which in his opinion destroys jobs and threatens the bond of human beings, especially in the case of young people.
This is a significant change in tone for this figure of technology, which still felt last year that AI would have a clear positive contribution for humanity, despite some negative aspects.
The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, proposes a solution to limit the effects of Artificial Intelligence on the labour market: creating "people-only" areas of activity, similar to nature reserves protected by human intervention.
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