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Bill Gates Says It's 'Completely Irresponsible' For AI To Not Have Safeguards

The Microsoft co-founder said that the more present danger is bad actors with access to AI tools.

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After several CEOs of leading AI companies have agreed on slowing down the pace of AI development, Bill Gates has offered supporting sentiments and called for more regulation and safeguards. In an interview with NBC News' Meet the Press, the Microsoft co-founder said that "it's completely irresponsible not to require every AI to have these safeguards and monitoring capabilities." To that end, Anthropic recently tapped Accenture to act as a third-party evaluator for its latest AI models.

As for other approaches to deal with AI's rapid rate of evolution, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, proposed a "kill switch" as part of a larger solution. When asked about the kill switch approach to curb AI, Gates said that, "I would never want to say that I'm against a...

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