Bill Gates Says AI Companies Cannot Regulate Themselves
Gates puts a major industry name behind government monitoring of AI, the position OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google leaders already back while Meta, SpaceXAI, and NVIDIA lobby against a standards body.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Bill Gates appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and said self-regulation by AI companies is not enough, arguing that law enforcement agencies and politicians need to be part of the discussion. He said AI has the power to cause a situation that kills a billion people, and that malicious people using the latest AI tools present a danger with no real precedent.
Gates said the combination of malicious people and the latest AI tools is what worries him, and that it is not something self-regulation can address on its own. He wants law enforcement agencies and politicians in the room.
The split he is stepping into is already drawn. Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis has called for an independent standards body in the United States, and the heads of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google support it. Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang oppose outside regulation and are lobbying President Trump against such a body. Gates also wrote a column on AI risk in August 2026, listing permanent job losses, greater harm from malicious actors, and damage to children's development.
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- GIGAZINE ビル・ゲイツがAIの危険性に警鐘、AI企業の自主規制では足りないと主張