Bill Gates warns AI ‘could cause a billion deaths’

Bill Gates has joined other tech bosses like Sam Altman and Elon Musk (Picture: Reuters)Bill Gates, one of the most powerful and influential people in big tech, has warned that AI could kill a ‘billion’ people.
The co-founder of Microsoft, the company behind AI chatbot Copilot, told NBC News that AI could be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.
It could be ‘certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths’, he said.‘There’s