The billionaire said artificial intelligence was unlikely to wipe out humanity but is dangerous in the hands of people with ill intent.
Artificial intelligence is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths if used by people with malicious intent, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’ in an interview on Friday.
Governments should not rely on tech companies to police themselves, the billionaire stressed, urging Washington to pass legislation regulating AI development.
“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that… cause a billion deaths,” he said. “Even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100%, there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people of ill intent using the latest AI tools.”
Gates’ warning came just days after OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei renewed calls for stronger government guardrails on the technology following multiple incidents involving AI agents breaking containment in recent months.
Last month, Gates warned that “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.” He also argued that the risk of a rogue group using “open source AI tools to design a bioterrorism weapon” is greater than that of “a naturally caused pandemic.”
It is not the first time Gates has warned of a looming global epidemic. In a widely viewed 2015 TED talk, he said the world was poorly prepared for the next major pandemic.
His warning drew renewed attention after the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in late 2019. Gates subsequently became a magnet for conspiracy theories because of his prominent role in global public health. His earlier warnings and the Gates Foundation’s involvement in a 2019 pandemic preparedness exercise were incorporated into claims that he had planned the outbreak and intended to profit from vaccines.
His earlier remarks linking vaccines and health care to slower population growth also drew controversy. In a 2010 TED talk, Gates said the world’s population was heading from 6.8 billion toward 9 billion before adding: “Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10% or 15%.”
Gates has dismissed vaccine- and pandemic-related accusations against him as “crazy” and “evil.”
The billionaire’s ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have also fueled public scrutiny and conspiracy theories, although Gates has repeatedly said that meeting Epstein was a mistake and denied any improper relationship with him.
He can talk he’s already killed Billions with his COVID-19 vaccines just like he said we can use vaccines to keep the population down and he’s the first to use Ai to create a deadly pathogen whens his next holocaust 🤔
You mean Bill is going to lose his crown?
Cannot escape the damnation of hell
Same people that claimed for 50 years that we would be dead from the weather already is now claiming this? Lying satanist people.
I bet he was smiling while he said it.
The guy holding the matches is telling everyone to be careful of fires
All Bill Gates-of-Hell wants for Christmas is a monopoly on AI and a global government to enforce it.
Okay then limit or remove AI from Windows 11. Its riddled with it.
All the biggest professional Covid liars are “sounding the alarm” about AI.
I’m gonna go ahead and not listen to them even harder than I didnt listen to them last time.
Who cares about what a genocidal j3w has to say?
adern, blomfeld, shitkins, mallard, fauci, gates and the big-pharma CEO’s, you are all invited out to a secret hideaway out on a secret boat out in the middle of the pacific ocean in a secret place where no-one can trace you for a lovely secret “talk” …. Don’t bring anything, all “neccessities” will be provided for you……. Free of charge…. Thank you… carry on… next…
Keep up with the play billy boy. Your fear mongering was so yesterday.
Super intelligence (SI) is the new official term for artificial intelligence (AI) ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2026. President Trump stated that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake. He argued that the new name reflects a strong, amazing technology. He instructed federal agencies and U.S. diplomats to use SI instead of AI in all official documents and posts.
It’s ‘SI’ now billy boy. AI was so yesterday.
Super intelligence (SI) is the new official term for artificial intelligence (AI) ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2026. President Trump stated that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake. He argued that the new name reflects a strong, amazing technology. He instructed federal agencies and U.S. diplomats to use SI instead of AI in all official documents and posts.
Deflection is his glaring mechanism against those who try and expose him, he is guilty of being part of the pandemic and he most certainly slept with Epstein’s underage sex slaves. A grubby little man that should be shot in the head.
‘in the hands of people with ill intent’
Who could he mean? the jew? Covid was just the warm up, strap in folks.
There is one death in particular the world would love to see.