Billionaire Bill Gates made a shocking assessment that artificial intelligence could cause the deaths of 1 billion people and that it will gradually wipe out humanity.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press ," which will air Sunday, Bill Gates tells journalist Kristen Welker that artificial intelligence now has such power that it can cause events with great loss of human life.
"Artificial intelligence is certainly powerful enough to lead to events that, as you know, cause the deaths of a billion people," he says in an excerpt from the interview published today by NBC.
Bill Gates says artificial intelligence is powerful enough to cause 1 billion deaths
Gates also notes that, while it is extremely difficult to achieve a 100% probability, "there has never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with bad intentions and the most advanced artificial intelligence tools."
Just a month ago, Bill Gates described artificial intelligence as a technology with a greater impact than almost any other in history and argued that AI could be either "the greatest equalizer ever invented" or "the worst source of injustice."
"At the current pace and speed, there is a very high probability that the final outcome will be negative," he assessed.
Gates has emphasized that artificial intelligence can bring major changes to work, health, the economy and society, but he considers it necessary to create control frameworks to limit risks.
He argues that governments and political parties must work together immediately to find ways to prevent artificial intelligence from developing into a force that escapes human control.
As he points out, the goal should not be to stop the development of AI, but to ensure that the technology is used for the good of society and does not create unprecedented risks.
The Microsoft co-founder, one of the most well-known supporters of technological progress, has begun to express growing concerns in recent years about the potential dangers of the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence.
His statements come at a time when top technology executives and governments around the world are considering ways to deal with the disaster scenarios that AI could cause. ©LAPSI.al
