{"id":58691,"date":"2026-09-28T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=58691"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:31:15","slug":"%e6%af%94%e5%b0%94%c2%b7%e7%9b%96%e8%8c%a8%ef%bc%9aai-%e5%8f%af%e8%83%bd%e5%bc%95%e5%8f%91%e5%8d%81%e4%ba%bf%e4%ba%ba%e6%ad%bb%e4%ba%a1%e4%ba%8b%e4%bb%b6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/58691.html","title":{"rendered":"BILL GATES: AI COULD CAUSE A BILLION DEATHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 28th<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%af%94%e5%b0%94%c2%b7%e7%9b%96%e8%8c%a8\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Bill Gates] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Bill Gates<\/a>In an interview with the NBC \u201cMeet the Press\u201d, he warns that there is no way to stop the government from doing so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> The capacity to do so has been sufficient to drive events that have killed one billion people\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58692\" title=\"a1e8a9d0j00tm2a2v0048d000ulm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a1e8a9d0j00tm2a2v0048d000u000dlm.jpg\" alt=\"a1e8a9d0j00tm2a2v0048d000ulm\" width=\"1080\" height=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HE STRESSED THAT THE RISK LAY IN THE USE OF THE LATEST AI TOOLS BY MALICIOUS PERSONS, WHICH HE CONSIDERED TO BE MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY WEAPON IN THE PAST\u3002<\/p>\n<p>GATES EXPLAINED IN A LONG ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON HIS PERSONAL WEBSITE IN AUGUST THAT AI WOULD LOWER THE THRESHOLD FOR CYBERATTACKS AND BIOTERRORISM AND ALLOW OFFENDERS WITH LIMITED CAPACITY TO LAUNCH ATTACKS AGAINST INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS HOSPITALS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WATER AND ELECTRICITY. IN HIS VIEW, THE SAME MODEL COULD HELP BOTH THE DEFENSIVE SIDE AND THE ATTACKER TO EXPLOIT THE LOOPHOLE, AND THE EXISTING MECHANISM COULD NOT BE FULLY DIVIDED BETWEEN TWO USES\u3002<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the Government needed to set up a cross-sectoral body to coordinate matters of national security, employment, education, public health, etc., and to establish an international governance framework with other countries. With reference to nuclear weapons verification and international aviation rules, Gates advocated the establishment of joint surveillance of cross-border risks and, with respect to employment shocks, the involvement of workers, businesses and communities in policy discussions\u3002<\/p>\n<p>GATES AT THE SAME TIME ACKNOWLEDGED THAT A GLOBAL SLOWDOWN IN AI CONVERGENCE PLAN WAS DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE UNDER ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL COMPETITION. HE ADVOCATED CONTINUED PROMOTION OF AI ' S APPLICATION IN HEALTH, AGRICULTURE AND EDUCATION, ALONG WITH EARLY ESTABLISHMENT OF COPING MECHANISMS FOR MALICIOUS USE AND JOB LOSS; AND INCLUDED AS PART OF THE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK HOW BENEFITS COULD REACH VULNERABLE GROUPS\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 September, in an interview with the NBC Meet the Press, the co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates warned that AI's ability was sufficient to promote events that had killed a billion people. He stressed that the risk lay in the use of the latest AI tools by malicious persons, which he considered to be more powerful than any weapon in the past. Gates explained in a long article published on his personal website in August that AI would lower the threshold for cyberattacks and bioterrorism and allow offenders with limited capacity to launch attacks against infrastructure such as hospitals, financial institutions, water and electricity. In his view, the same model could help both the defensive side and the attacker to exploit the loophole, and the existing mechanism could not be fully divided between two uses. He suggested that the government needed to establish a cross-section<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,9134],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-58691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-9134"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58691"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=58691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}