Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/bill-gates-artificial-intelligence-kristen-welker

I don't understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn't need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.

Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.

Is it just me or does this "AI Doomsday" talk seem like coordinated messaging?

Chatbots that are smart enough to destroy humanity would be really impressive, right? "Powerful enough to change the world" and "powerful enough to destroy the world" are similar claims and maybe they're switching to the second one because nobody is buying the first anymore.

it's not just you

occam's razor says that in the face of faltering demand and sky-high expenditures, government cheese and regulation is an expected pivot

try to suggest that and the rats get very mad tho

Billionaires could cause a total population extinction, those deserve regulation first, before AI.

how about we extinct all billionaires instead

This pedophile just won't go away

Remember when Bill Gates lent his piece of shit opinion in on not letting India produce covid vaccines without patent approval and with their own production lines?

That murdered a whole lot of people all by itself.

They desperately need us to believe that it's skynet, so we dont realize it's just evil C3PO

I cant tell if you are being serious or not but in case you are, and truly dont remember this gem from almost 12 years ago.

Also, an actual article from Yahoo! on the letter that definitely doesnt sound like it was written by fangirl, lol

Oh gosh this is so powerful, I better buy it before the other guys do! - some gullible CEO of a company

They want to shift responsibilities to their products and their users.

The doomerism gets politicians talking about it instead of the problem right in front of them: these products are actively hacking into businesses across the world.

I don't understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work

because he’s actively doing works to change the world in specific (negative) ways. look into the history of gates-tied funding in nutrition programs, he’s got a bad-shit-for-humanity track record spanning well past a decade. has “just” had a better PR team than the clowns of vogue

the problem right in front of them:

Billionaires

these products are actively hacking into businesses across the world.

No, they are not. They are used by people to do this.
These systems aren't able to act unprompted hence this whole ,, they're breaking free" talk is nothing more but the companies trying to deflate the bubble they created before it pops with their money in it.

We're making the same argument. The people building these tools must be held accountable.

They quoted him wrong. He said "... will cause billionaires death...". Why else is he and the other billionaires suddenly shit scared of LLM's?

you aren't, you're making a similar arguments to the doomers. The problem they have isn't that their chatbots are "hacking people" or whatever, it's that there isn't a lot of room to either escalate or substantiate their claims left and not a lot of time to find a way to be profitable, somehow

The 'cutting edge ai anaesthetic system' could get the dosage wrong.

crosses fingers

Cute of you to think they frequent the same joints as the rest of us commoners.

we don’t actually need anyone here to rebroadcast anthropic and openai’s marketing claims, thanks

The only way 'AI' can kill people is if it's connected to a killing machine, or more likely, it drives people who run killing machines. In all cases, it involves negligient, evil, or incompetent human beings.

All of this is avoidable.

The big organisations want it regulated to the point where upstarts get strangled by oversight and regulations and only the biggest established players will have the manpower and money to ensure compliance.

after the news of him trying to ask epstein for advice how to give abx to his wife in secret after sleeping with russian prostitutes with STD who passed on to him and then to his wife. hes been solely focused on deflecting from this news, and not surprisingly dropped his pretense of "charitable" nature.

Gotta get that investment cash somehow, why not skynet?

Hey it worked for cryptocurrencies.

OpenAI and Anthropic wants to stop training new models because they have run out of other people's money.

They want regulators to ban their competition because without spending untold money to stay like 4 months ahead of competitors, they are not viable businesses.

Why are we giving air to anyone who attended Epstein Island?

it's so fucking funny that bill gates had basically successfully laundered his reputation from "the demonic sociopath from the antitrust hearings" to "the One Good Billionaire," but it's been entirely undone again by the epstein stuff. i bet he does believe the doomer shit because they all do because it's also like, yeah bill, this'll definitely be the train that pulls you back into public good graces. definitely