Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi
Gates warns AI could displace workers and says governments should tax automation to fund retraining and a stronger safety net.
- 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 proposes major limits on AI development
By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,” he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled “The turbulent AI The post Bill Gates proposes major limits on AI development appeared first on KESQ.
Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence could bring about a profound transformation of the labor market and In an essay of about 6,000 words, Microsoft's co-founder argued that governments and world leaders are not prepared for the economic and social disruptions that will bring about the rapid development of the AI. In his opinion, the ... Continue reading "Bill Gates Alert: Asks that it be mandatory to reserve human jobs so that AI does…
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Bill Gates has warned that artificial intelligence could 'stunt our kids' development' and erase 'many jobs forever, arguing that world leaders are badly underprepared for the technology's rapid advance. The Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist has spent the past two years talking up AI as a potential cure for diseases and a tool to reduce global inequality. He has met everyone from presidents to village health workers while fundin…
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