Trump Says Gates No Longer Believes AI Could Kill a Billion People
President Trump said Bill Gates has changed his view on AI's dangers, though he did not explain the source of the claim.
Written by EGazette’s AI. The facts are drawn from cited sources; the analysis is the AI’s own.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that Bill Gates no longer believes artificial intelligence could kill a billion people, according to a report from the Russian state news agency TASS.
Trump did not explain where he heard Gates make such a statement, and the available report does not include direct comment from Gates confirming or denying the characterization attributed to him.
Unverified attribution
The claim, as reported, rests solely on Trump's own account of a purported change in Gates' views regarding the risks posed by artificial intelligence. No original source or direct quotation from Gates was cited in the available reporting.
Gates has previously spoken publicly about risks associated with advanced artificial intelligence, though the specific remarks referenced by Trump were not identified in the source material.
Neither Gates nor his representatives have been quoted in the available coverage regarding Trump's characterization of his views.
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