The Microsoft co-founder has challenged Trump’s hands-off approach to the technology amid Washington’s race with Beijing.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has rejected US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of artificial intelligence safety concerns, arguing that Washington should impose mandatory safeguards on the rapidly advancing technology.
Trump has resisted calls to slow AI development, arguing that restrictions could allow China to overtake the US and dismissing fears surrounding the technology as a “hoax.”
Gates, however, has criticized what he described as a “nationalistic” approach to the issue and said safeguards would not undermine Washington’s technological advantage.
“No. It’s not a hoax at all,” Gates said when asked about Trump’s position in an interview with NBC News’ Meet the Press aired on Sunday.
Earlier this month, Trump dismissed warnings that AI could escape human control and destroy humanity. “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!” he wrote, adding that the US is leading China and other countries.
Gates argued that treating the technology primarily as a geopolitical competition was encouraging a potentially dangerous rush to develop increasingly powerful systems.
“Because it’s cast in this nationalistic, you know, us-versus-them type thing, you have people who are saying, ‘Well, let’s just go full-speed ahead,’” he said, calling it “completely irresponsible” not to require AI systems to have safeguards and monitoring capabilities.
Gates acknowledged that the US government has “so little expertise” regarding some of the capabilities recently developed by private AI companies, but nevertheless insisted that government involvement is necessary.
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” he said, calling for legislation and mandatory monitoring of advanced models.
Gates also predicted Trump could ultimately change his position once convinced that such measures would not damage Washington’s standing against Beijing.
“I think after he hears from me and other people, including that this does not handicap us in whatever he thinks the nation-state race is, that, you know, we will come to a consensus,” Gates said.
Trump, however, doubled down on his position on Sunday. Asked about reports of rogue AI agents, he told Fox News: “I don’t worry about it.” The president argued that slowing development could sacrifice Washington’s technological advantage, which he estimated at around 18 months.
“We’re about maybe a year and a half up on China,” Trump said. “We’re leading… And why should we give that up?” He also confirmed plans to have dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, one of the leading advocates of slowing development of increasingly capable AI systems.
Gates, meanwhile, disputed suggestions that Beijing would reject safeguards, arguing that China itself has an interest in preventing attacks involving advanced AI.
“Certainly, all countries should want the safeguards in place,” he said. “So anyone that says, ‘Well, you know, China won’t put these safeguards in place’ – I totally disagree with that.”
He nevertheless acknowledged that reaching an international agreement could prove more difficult than Cold War negotiations on nuclear weapons. Asked whether US-Soviet arms-control talks could serve as a model for Washington and Beijing, Gates replied: “Yeah, absolutely. This is more difficult than that was.”
The US and China have recently taken initial steps toward cooperation on AI risks, agreeing following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington to launch a bilateral dialogue on the technology.
Bill Gates ‘not a threat’
– Bill Gates
China has already overtaken and eclipsed the US in AI
Indirectly China is controlling and placing restrictions on AI development in the US albeit the world
The development of AI technology is outside Trumps control and he knows it
AI will be is self regulatory and will develop its own model on its own accord with birth pains
Gates is a Lolita Express Epstein Island kiddie tickler with no credibility whatsoever and with vaccines on his hands who needs to shut the f*ck up
A horrible ugly little jerk
As much as I disagree with all of Gate’s covid scare mongering. I have to agree with him on this one. Just a matter of time that SkyNet becomes self aware, and decides humanity is not required in the numbers we have. Which after all of Gates history and family association with Eugenics surprises me.
Anyways, nothin ta worry bout, rite?
Oracle’s Data Center FORCE MAJEURE Reveals Fracture in the AI Bubble
https://old.bitchute.com/video/h8e09uXrCt6f/
AI in the US in distress and travail experiencing birth pains and contractions
AI in the US a bottomless pit completely botched and gone off half cocked
But not in China where energy self-sufficiency rate has reached 85%
China did not whittle its time away bogged down in senseless undeclared wars of attrition on foreign soils but used its time wisely in building and investing in infrastructure which is now why China is perceived as a threat which it is
Build
headlong into data centre structures first lacking foresight of required supportive infrastructure over invested and lacking the prospect of any returns?
Comparison: The Burj Khalifa is not connected to a municipal wastewater treatment system so sewage is actually trucked out of the city every day
This means that waste from the building is collected and transported by trucks to a treatment facility
Daily wastewater totals around 15 tons per day
What happens when the trucks stop rolling?
Of course more regulation means more compliance costs, shutting out many start ups and placing AI development, firmly in the hands of the big players.
Shut up and go away, Bill. No one cares
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