Bill Gates warns of AI’s impact, urges the US and China to cooperate

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or the harm to humans will outweigh the good, urging the United States and China to cooperate on setting shared norms for AI development. In a 6,000-word essay, Gates described AI as ushering in 'one of the most turbulent times in human history' and said world leaders are not adequately preparing for the transition.

Advertisement Bill Gates warns of AI’s impact, urges the US and China to cooperate Tech titan argued on Wednesday artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Vincent Chow /author/vincent-chow in in Washington Cooperation between the United States https://www.scmp.com/topics/united-states?module=inline&pgtype=article and China is required to manage the unprecedented societal impacts of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence AI https://www.scmp.com/topics/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&pgtype=article technology, Bill Gates https://www.scmp.com/topics/bill-gates?module=inline&pgtype=article wrote in a new essay published on Wednesday.The call to action comes as the billionaire philanthropist and tech titan warns that AI is ushering in “one of the most turbulent times in human history”, which could either become “the greatest equaliser ever invented, or the worst source of injustice”. “ The countries that host the leading AI developers https://www.scmp.com/topics/ai-companies?module=inline&pgtype=article and control critical parts of the supply chain should begin meeting now to set up shared norms, before competitive pressure makes it harder for them to cooperate,” he wrote.“Building the framework I’m talking about will take years, which is why we need to start now.” In the 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft https://www.scmp.com/topics/microsoft?module=inline&pgtype=article co-founder said world leaders are not adequately preparing for the transition to the AI era, which he believes differs from past technological transitions because of the pace of AI progress and the scale of its potential impacts.“This time really is different,” he wrote. Advertisement Select Voice Select Speed 1.00x