Bill Gates says the people building artificial intelligence know exactly how dangerous it is and are staying quiet because saying so out loud would threaten the funding it relies on.
In a nearly 6,000-word essay published on his GatesNotes website, the Microsoft co-founder did something he has never done in five decades of championing new technology: He said he wishes it would advance more slowly.
Gates told The New York Times that tech executives privately discuss AI's dangers but suppress those concerns because raising alarms publicly would jeopardize the capital pipeline fueling development.
He described the silence as deliberate, financially motivated, and industry-wide. The essay names three risks Gates says warrant immediate action.
The sharpest section of the essay targets the people building the technology, not the politicians trying to regulate it. Gates described the pattern as structural, a function of how AI capital moves.
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In a nearly 6,000-word essay published on his GatesNotes website, the Microsoft co-founder did something he has never done in five decades of championing new technology: He said he wishes it would advance more slowly.
Gates told The New York Times that tech executives privately discuss AI's dangers but suppress those concerns because raising alarms publicly would jeopardize the capital pipeline fueling development.
He described the silence as deliberate, financially motivated, and industry-wide. The essay names three risks Gates says warrant immediate action.
The sharpest section of the essay targets the people building the technology, not the politicians trying to regulate it. Gates described the pattern as structural, a function of how AI capital moves.
#essay #bill
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