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22
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5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Bill Gates joins calls for AI safeguards, including legislation
WASHINGTON - AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that aired on Sept 27, calling for legislation to be passed in Congress.
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legislation → join → Congress
“You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” Gates said in a taped interview on NBC’s Meet the Press programme.
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Gates → need → programme
“And that has to be a required thing.”
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that → have → ?
A sudden groundswell has risen in favour of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another company, subverting human control.
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agent → rise → control
Gates joined that chorus, saying that government must be involved.
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government → join → chorus
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” he said.
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he → think → ?
In a rare show of unity, the CEOs of rivals Anthropic, OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have called for slowing the development of increasingly capable AI systems.
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CEOs → call → systems
But US President Donald Trump and other opponents of additional regulation for AI say new government restrictions would simply give China the upper hand in the AI revolution.
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restrictions → say → revolution
Trump has publicly dismissed calls for new laws on AI as a “hoax.”
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Trump → dismiss → hoax
Gates argued that safeguards would not dramatically hinder the industry, and that the risks of not implementing them are real.
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risks → argue → them
“It’s not a hoax at all,” he told NBC.
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he → ’ → NBC
Gates has said he wants to meet Trump to discuss AI.
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he → say → AI
“I hope that, given my life’s work in the field, my saying how unique and different this is and how concerned I am will add to what he’s hearing from other people
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he → hope → people
,” Gates said.
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Gates → say → ?
Axios reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have dinner on Sept 27 with Trump at the White House.
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Amodei → report → House
Anthropic and the White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the Axios report.
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Anthropic → return → report
But they took on added urgency in September after researchers in leading AI labs attached both a timeline and a probability to those concerns.
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researchers → take → concerns
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, prompting US lawmakers to call for new rules to govern the technology.
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AI → warn → technology
Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment science lead, echoed Coxon’s warning, saying there was a more than 10 per cent chance of such an event within the next decade.
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Hubinger → echo → decade
Some policymakers have proposed mandating a “kill switch” that would allow federal authorities to halt AI models.
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authorities → propose → models
Gates said that while he was not opposed to some sort of kill switch, it would not be enough if other safeguards were not also implemented.
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safeguards → say → switch
The US and China agreed to launch a dialogue on AI following President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Washington.
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US → agree → Washington
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