Bill Gates says AI without regulation is ‘completely irresponsible’

The billionaire cofounder of Microsoft says without restrictions, AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’.Published On 27 Sep 202627 Sep 2026Not requiring AI to have safeguards and be subject to outside monitoring is “completely irresponsible” and could lead to global harm to humanity, said tech mogul Bill Gates, in a series of media appearances where the philanthropist weighed in on global discussions concerning how to regulate the technology.“You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion of what safeguards and monitoring looks like,” Gates said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, parts of which aired on Sunday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3China, US to open AI ‘communication channel’ after summitlist 2 of 3OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs call for global AI regulation at UNlist 3 of 3Trump rejects combining US-China AI effortsend of listGates warned that the technology was “certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths.” Ensuring that did not happen, he said, could be a more difficult task than other existential threats, such as slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons.The tech pioneer turned philanthropist s...