AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Bill Gates says AI could enable bioterrorism and erase millions of jobs — while tech executives hide the risks
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published a sweeping 6,000-word warning that artificial intelligence is advancing at an "uncontrolled" rate, accusing fellow tech executives of suppressing their own fears to protect fundraising. Gates, 70, laid out the case in an essay titled The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Are Critical, released Wednesday. He […] The post Bill Gates says AI could enable bioterrorism and erase millions of jobs — while tech executives hide the risks appeared first on American Almanac .
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published a sweeping 6,000-word warning that artificial intelligence is advancing at an "uncontrolled" rate, accusing fellow tech executives of suppressing their own fears to protect fundraising. Gates, 70, laid out the case in an essay titled The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Are Critical, released Wednesday. He paired it with comments to The New York Times in which he described private conversations among industry leaders who understand how powerful AI has become, and how deliberately they avoid saying so in public. The picture Gates paints is blunt: AI will make it easier to design deadly diseases, strip entire professions of work within a decade, hand authoritarian governments…Open