Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that global cooperation in artificial intelligence will be "more difficult" than talks about preventing nuclear proliferation during the Cold War.
In an interview broadcast on NBC News, "Meet the Press" host Kristin Welker asked Gates about the cooperation between the United States and the former Soviet Union in limiting the development of nuclear weapons, and whether that standard could be replicated between the United States and China in the field of artificial intelligence.
Gates said, "Yes, absolutely. This is more difficult than that," adding later that the United States had cooperated with other countries to deal with a range of issues from aviation safety to nuclear nonproliferation, and said, "Artificial intelligence is one of the areas where we're going to have to go back to that principle: Hey, we're all in this together, all of humanity is in this together."
Gates stressed that law enforcement and legislators must cooperate in determining the shape of "protection and oversight," without a "significant slowdown" in development by technology companies, adding that legislation imposing regulations on artificial intelligence "must definitely" be passed, and that self-regulation by technology companies is not enough.
Gates was among the many voices that warned of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence to humans. Welker raised this point and asked Gates if AI could end human life on Earth. He said, "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths," adding, "So, although it's very difficult to get to 100 percent, there has never been a weapon as powerful as combining people with bad intentions using the latest AI tools."
He added that the ongoing discussions within the industry about the risks posed by artificial intelligence have been "fantastic," but the next problem comes from those who "either underestimate this or see it as just competition." He continued, "And it's very scary that we don't have all the thinkers who are saying: How do we want to shape this?"
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