Bill Gates Tells Telluride Crowd AI Is Humanity's Greatest Problem Yet

At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates Compares Lack of Control Over AI to HAL in ‘2001’: ‘You Could Say “Please Shut Down,” and It Would Say, “OK, I Took That Under Advisement, But…”‘

Plenty of comparisons have been made in recent years between fast-developing artificial intelligence systems and HAL, the rogue computer in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” that operated by its own sets of rules, ultimately disregarding human oversight. If that comparison ever seemed overstated, it may be worth knowing that tech mogul Bill Gates is […]

AI anxiety comes to Telluride, with Bill Gates sounding the alarm

At a festival built around the human touch, two events confronted the promise and perils of artificial intelligence, as Bill Gates warned "the aliens are here."

Bill Gates Says AI Has Outgrown Human Control, Compares It to HAL in '2001: A Space Odyssey'

At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates said AI has outpaced his expectations and may no longer respond to human commands to shut down.

Bill Gates Tells Telluride Crowd AI Is Humanity's Greatest Problem Yet

Bill Gates called AI humanity's greatest problem at the Telluride Film Festival, as advocates urged a pause on frontier AI development.