Bill Gates calls for government safeguards on AI development

A former Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, also blew the whistle earlier this month and warned that leading AI firms are not “acting responsibly.”

“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” said Coxon on X, as he posted his resignation on the platform.

But Gates maintained that AI going rogue is not the most dangerous risk associated with AI.

“There is not a current risk of these AIs getting completely out of control,” Gates said in the interview.

According to the Microsoft co-founder, the recent loss-of-control incidents involving AI have prompted people to scrutinise the technology, even if that was not the “imminent risk.”