Bill Gates says AI gives small groups nation-state-level attack capabilities
In an interview on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said that AI transfers large-scale destructive capabilities once held by nation-states to independent groups—in the cyber domain, profit-seekers, and in the biological domain, people who want to cause harm. He also noted that there is currently no mandatory review of models, nor is there progress on building safeguards. The full video of the interview was published on the Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge YouTube channel.
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In the interview, Gates argued that AI gives independent groups nation-state-level destructive capabilities, while model review and safeguards remain absent.
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View original postBill Gates wants powerful open-weight models to run only where the government says they can. For any model capable of sophisticated cyber attacks, he wants safeguards and monitoring kept in by law. Developers could still use these models for free and customize them, but only on certified platforms that detect and refuse any attempt to strip out the safeguards. ---- Full video on "Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless) and The Verge" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Bill Gates wants powerful open-weight models to run only where the government says they can. For any model capable of sophisticated cyber attacks, he wants safeguards and monitoring kept in by law. Developers could still use these models for free and customize them, but only on certified platforms that detect and refuse any attempt to strip out the safeguards. ---- Full video on "Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless) and The Verge" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Bill Gates thinks AI has handed nation-state level attack power to small groups.
> "And we have created something that takes out of the hands of nation states, actually the larger of them, the ability to do dramatic harms. And now those are handed off to independent groups, either profit-seeking in the case of cyber or just wanting to cause damage in the case of bio. And so it's stunning that we now don't even have mandatory review of the models and we're not working to create safeguards."
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Full video on "Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless) and The Verge" YouTube channel, (link in comment)