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At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates Compares a Lack of Human Control Over AI to HAL in ‘2001’: ‘You Could Say “Please Shut Down,” and It Would Say, “OK, I Took That Under Advisement, But…”‘
#Variety #News #2001ASpaceOdyssey #BillGates #TellurideFilmFestivalhttps://variety.com/2026/film/news/bill-gates-ai-controls-telluride-film-festival-2001-1236853326/
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Okay, let's provide some citations for the big stuff. Web search is our friend! The #Epstein files allege he did it, but Bill Gates' spokesperson denied he acquired antibiotics to secretly administer to his wife... although from her reported account it sounds awfully like his actions on Epstein Island contributed to her divorcing him, and the timing of Epstein's arrest and their divorce at least seems roughly consistent with her not wanting his extra-marital actions to be brought up in public. I can't imagine we'll ever know the whole truth; too much money at stake.
There's also the very reasonable question: why should we care? This might be a fun time to remind readers that with #openSource software, you don't *have* to absolutely trust the developers; you (or your agent) can just read their code! I realise I'm mostly preaching to the choir here on mastodon 😅
#billGates #deFenestrate #microsoft #windows #deWindows #deMicrosoft #FOSS
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Missing Link: Außer Kontrolle? Die KI-Debatte zwischen Apokalypse und Aufbruch
Ausbrechende Agenten, drohender Stellenabbau und geopolitische Ränke: Pioniere und Vordenker wie Bill Gates ringen um die Zukunft der Künstlichen Intelligenz.
#Anthropic #BillGates #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MissingLink #OpenAI #Phishing #Security #news
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Missing Link: Out of Control? The AI Debate Between Apocalypse and Breakthrough
Escaping agents, looming job cuts, and geopolitical machinations: pioneers and visionaries like Bill Gates grapple with the future of artificial intelligence.
#Anthropic #BillGates #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MissingLink #OpenAI #Phishing #Security #news
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Bill Gates fears world leaders are unprepared for 3 major AI risks: ‘Stunted’ child development, emboldened criminals, and vanishing jobs for Gen Z
#news #AI #BillGateshttps://fortune.com/2026/08/26/bill-gates-ai-warning-risks-benefit-world-leaders/
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How do we regulate models build by AI Companies?
Source: The Atlantic (Bill Gates Changes His Mind on AI)
#BillGates #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #AISafety #TechRegulation #FutureOfWork
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Bill Gates warnt im FAZ-Gastbeitrag: Der Übergang in die KI-Ära wird eine der unruhigsten Phasen der Menschheitsgeschichte – Politik hat offenbar keinen Plan. Sein Rezept: neue Institutionen, Berufe, die dem Menschen vorbehalten bleiben ("Human Reserved"), plus eine Steuer auf KI und Roboter. Ambitioniert. Mit Trump und Konsorten nicht durchsetzbar. #KI #BillGates #Arbeitsmarkt https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/bill-gates-warnt-wir-sind-auf-die-kuenstliche-intelligenz-nicht-vorbereitet-accg-201170877.html
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Bill Gates' recent essay on the dangers of artificial intelligence is eye-opening: When AI does the thinking, what could possibly go wrong? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/02/world/jto-glosserman-ai-threats/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #billgates #computers #openai #psychology #ai
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Taibang 189: Warum reist Bill Gates nach Seoul?
https://taibang.substack.com/p/taibang-189-warum-reist-bill-gates#nuclearreactors #smr #billgates #studentcity #cafe #grangehouse #orchardroad #chineseheritage #robot #humanoid #fawhongqi #solar
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Bill Gates: I was ‘foolish’ to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein | CNN
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Chinese artificial intelligence companies' open approach to the mathematical parameters that power their AI systems stands in contrast with that of their U.S. counterparts, who keep theirs secret. Which is safer? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/31/tech/china-america-ai-security/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #us #ai #cybersecurity #hacking #billgates
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RT @Polymarket: EILMELDUNG: Bill Gates fordert Regierungen auf, „für Menschen vorgesehene“ Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen, die von KI & Robotern nicht ersetzt werden dürfen.
mehr auf Arint.info
#BillGates #EILMELDUNG #KI #Menschenrechte #Technologie #ZukunftDerArbeit #arint_info
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“AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice.”
- #BillGates in his recent #Ai Essay;
https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make -
“El mundo no está preparado”: Bill Gates lanza fuerte advertencia sobre la IA
Bill Gates, advirtió que el mundo no está preparado para las consecuencias que traerá la inteligencia artificial (IA), que en su opinión destruye puestos de trabajo y amenaza el vínculo de los seres humanos, especialmente en el caso de los jóvenes. En un artículo publicado en su blog, el cofundador de Microsoft afirmó que la […]
The post “El mundo no está preparado”: Bill Gates lanza fuerte advertencia sobre la IA appeared first on CR Hoy.#BillGates #InteligenciaArtificial #Tecnología
https://crhoy.com/el-mundo-no-esta-preparado-bill-gates-lanza-fuerte-advertencia-sobre-la-ia/
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@SandraDeHaan Gates komt met een serie maatregelen om het tij te keren. Want dat kan nog volgens hem. Gates denkt onder meer aan het wettelijk beschermen van een bepaald type banen zodat ze niet door AI worden overgenomen, zoals in de zorg. Een andere maatregel is het verschuiven van de belastingdruk van menselijke arbeid naar AI-kapitaal.
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Bill Gates warnt vor KI und fordert Jobs, die nur Menschen machen dürfen
Ist dein Job gefährdet? Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates warnt jedenfalls davor, dass KI unsere Leben extrem ändern wird – und wir alle ohne Vorbereitung viel verlieren könnten.
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Bill Gates warns: The world is unprepared to face 3 major risks of artificial intelligence
In a new article published Wednesday, August 26, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that the world is unprepared to face the major risks that artificial intelligence brings.
#BillGates #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRisks #AIWarning #FutureOfAI
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#BillGates warnt vor KI-Gefahr: Tech-Branche verharmlost die Risiken
Massenarbeitslosigkeit, Cyberangriffe und Bioterrorismus: Bill Gates malt in einem neuen Aufsatz ein düsteres Bild der künstlichen Intelligenz. Um die drohenden Gefahren abzuwenden, nimmt der Philanthrop nun gezielt die Politik in die Pflicht.Artikel von #winfuture
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#BillGates: The rapid advancement of #AI presents both #opportunities and #challenges. While it has the potential to be a great equaliser, it also poses significant #risks, including widespread #jobdisplacement and the potential for #misuse by malicious actors. To maximise the benefits and minimise the harms, proactive planning and action are needed to address these challenges. https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews
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tl;dr he gets a few things very right, does a bunch of things duplicitously, & missed an excellent chance to announce he & Microsoft were doing something on a bigger-than-Dolly-Parton scale (yes, thanks for $200B for disease BUT…) e.g. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/06/work... #BillGates #AIEthics
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Brandbrief: Bill Gates fordert Plan für den Umgang mit KI
Bill Gates sieht in KI enormes Potenzial. Der Microsoft-Gründer warnt aber auch vor tiefgreifenden Umbrüchen und Risiken. In einem Blog-Post im Internet fordert er deshalb gesamtgesellschaftliche Regeln für den Umgang. Von C. Kühntopp.
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DATE: August 27, 2026 at 01:15PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Bill Gates Issues Stark Warning About AI's Impact on Jobs and Biosecurity
Source: CBS News - U.S. News
In a nearly 6,000-word essay released Wednesday on his personal website, Bill Gates is sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence, warning that the technology will rapidly transform the U.S. labor market and put millions of jobs at risk. AI is changing the economy much faster than previous revolutions, he says, advancing at what the Microsoft co-founder called a "mind-blowing rate" and leaving less time to prepare for employment...
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Bill Gates Is Warning Us About AI. Before We Panic, Remember Bill Gates.
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, Philippines — August 27, 2026
Bill Gates is worried about artificial intelligence taking people’s jobs.
There is a certain historical irony in that sentence that should not be ignored.
The Microsoft co-founder has published a nearly 6,000-word warning arguing that artificial intelligence could eliminate enormous numbers of jobs, destabilize society, enable cybercrime and biological threats, damage childhood development, and produce what he describes as either an extraordinary equalizer or an extraordinary source of injustice (Gates, 2026).
Some of those concerns are legitimate.
But before anyone appoints Bill Gates the patron saint of endangered American workers, there is some history worth remembering.
Bill Gates Wasn’t Always This Worried About Replacing American Technology Workers
During the 2000s, Gates became one of corporate America’s most prominent advocates for dramatically expanding the H-1B visa program, which allows American companies to employ foreign workers in specialized occupations.
In congressional testimony in 2007 and 2008, Gates argued that the existing 65,000-visa base cap was inadequate and that American technology companies needed greater access to foreign scientists and engineers. In 2007, he said he favored essentially unlimited access to highly skilled foreign workers, although he acknowledged that such a policy might not be politically achievable (Gross, 2007; Gates, 2008).
Gates and Microsoft argued that this was about finding talent unavailable in sufficient numbers domestically.
Critics saw something considerably less benevolent.
They argued that H-1B expansion gave technology companies access to workers who could sometimes be employed for less than comparable American professionals, depressing wages and increasing competition faced by American programmers and engineers. Contemporary reporting noted that critics in Congress explicitly accused the program of displacing Americans and suppressing technology wages (Kessler, 2008).
Senator Chuck Grassley challenged Gates directly after his 2008 congressional testimony, arguing that expanding the program without reform would not adequately protect qualified American workers (Grassley, 2008).
And there was another uncomfortable fact.
Microsoft was simultaneously expanding overseas.
In 2003, Microsoft acknowledged that it was shifting some technical support and development work from the United States to India as part of an effort to reduce costs. The company was increasing its Indian workforce while considering reductions in the United States (Wired, 2003).
That does not prove that Bill Gates personally embarked upon some campaign to destroy American information-technology employment.
It does establish something much less sensational and considerably more important: Gates spent years advocating labor and corporate policies that many American technology workers believed threatened their jobs and wages.
That history matters when the same man now warns us that technology may replace workers.
Now Gates Wants to Protect Human Jobs
Gates’ latest proposal is almost breathtaking when placed beside that history.
He suggests governments may eventually need to designate certain occupations or tasks as “Human Reserved”—work that machines would deliberately be prevented from taking over even if artificial intelligence became capable of performing it.
He has also proposed taxing robots and AI usage partly to reduce the financial incentive for companies to replace human labor with machines and partly to finance retraining and social protections for displaced workers (Gates, 2026; Fried, 2026).
Read that again.
One of the men who spent years arguing that American technology companies needed access to a much larger international labor pool is now suggesting that government may need to intervene to prevent technology companies from replacing human workers.
Perhaps Gates has changed his mind.
People are allowed to do that.
Perhaps artificial intelligence genuinely presents a labor-market threat fundamentally different from globalization, outsourcing or immigration.
There is considerable reason to believe that it does.
But skepticism is not unreasonable.
And Then There Is the Money Question
There is another question WPS News believes readers are entitled to ask:
Why now?
One possible cynical interpretation is that Gates has concluded that the economics of artificial intelligence are not developing the way he expected and is now discovering the virtues of restraint.
There is presently no evidence establishing that explanation.
In fact, the available evidence complicates it substantially. Microsoft remains deeply invested in artificial intelligence and maintains a major strategic and financial relationship with OpenAI. Microsoft’s latest annual filing says it continues making significant investments in AI products and services and remains entitled to revenue-sharing payments through its OpenAI partnership (Microsoft, 2026).
Gates himself is no longer running Microsoft day to day, so Microsoft’s corporate interests should not simply be treated as Gates’ personal financial interests.
Nevertheless, the question of incentives is legitimate.
When enormously wealthy technology figures warn society about technologies produced by the industry that made them enormously wealthy, journalists should examine both the warning and the interests surrounding the person delivering it.
That isn’t conspiracy theory.
That’s journalism.
Some of Gates’ Warnings Are Still Right
None of this means Gates is wrong about artificial intelligence.
He may be spectacularly right.
AI can automate cognitive work in a way earlier machinery generally could not. Gates specifically identifies law, medicine, customer service, software and manufacturing among the fields likely to experience disruption. He believes AI-driven robotics will eventually extend that disruption further into physical occupations (Gates, 2026).
He is also warning about AI-assisted cyberattacks, biological weapons, fraud and other deliberate misuse.
Those are real problems.
And Gates’ argument that society should consider protecting certain human occupations rather than blindly accepting every economically efficient automation deserves serious discussion.
But so does Gates’ record.
Technology Billionaires Don’t Suddenly Become Disinterested Observers
Silicon Valley has spent decades telling workers that disruption is progress.
Your factory closes? Progress.
Your job goes overseas? Progress.
Foreign labor can perform your job for less? Global competitiveness.
Software eliminates your department? Innovation.
An algorithm eliminates your profession?
Suddenly we’re discussing protecting human employment.
American information-technology professionals who lived through outsourcing, offshoring and the H-1B battles of the 1990s and 2000s could reasonably be forgiven for raising an eyebrow.
Bill Gates deserves to be heard.
He does not deserve to be heard without context.
The Warning May Be Correct Even If We Distrust the Messenger
That is ultimately where this story becomes more interesting than “Bill Gates says AI is dangerous.”
Artificial intelligence is potentially dangerous.
Massive employment displacement is possible. Cybersecurity threats are real. Biological misuse deserves serious government attention. Children probably should not be raised primarily by artificial companions. And governments are nowhere near adequately prepared for the economic transformation that increasingly capable machines could produce.
Gates may therefore be right about the problem.
But being right today does not erase yesterday.
His history of championing expanded access to foreign technology labor—and Microsoft’s history of shifting some American technical work overseas—belongs in any serious assessment of his newfound concern about protecting human workers.
And the possibility that economic interests influence the changing positions of billionaires should always be investigated rather than politely ignored.
We cannot presently establish that Gates is warning about AI because he has decided he cannot make enough money from it. The evidence does not support stating that as fact.
We can, however, ask the question.
We can examine his interests.
We can remember his history.
And we can refuse to accept either Silicon Valley’s AI evangelists or its newly worried elder statesmen as unquestionable authorities on what is best for everybody else.
The machines deserve scrutiny.
So do the men who built the industry that created them.
References
Fried, I. (2026, August 26). Bill Gates wants to keep some jobs off-limits to AI. Axios.
Gates, B. (2008, March 12). Written testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives. U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology.
Gates, B. (2026, August 26). The turbulent AI era is here: The choices we make now are critical. Gates Notes.
Grassley, C. (2008, March 12). Grassley to Gates: Solution isn’t importing more foreign workers. United States Senate.
Gross, G. (2007, March 7). Gates: Tech needs more immigrant visas. InfoWorld.
Kessler, M. (2008, March 13). Bill Gates urges more visas for tech workers. USA Today.
Microsoft Corporation. (2026). Annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Wired. (2003, July 3). Microsoft cuts U.S. jobs. Wired.
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