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On October 25, 2026, in an interview on The Verge's Decoder podcast, Bill Gates offered the judgment that AI is the most dangerous technology to date, and said that humanity has already crossed a certain capability threshold. Reports the same day said he stated that AI transfers the large-scale destructive capability once held by nation-states to independent groups, with the cyber domain being profit-seekers and the biological domain being those who want to cause harm; he also noted that there is currently no mandatory review of models, and that work on safeguards has not advanced. On October 26, Gates further stated on the same podcast that AI will create "true abundance," but that the roughly 20-year transition period before then will be "as turbulent as any period in human history," with winners and losers and a great deal of chaos; he predicted that white-collar jobs such as telemarketing, phone customer service, and accounting will disappear, and that blue-collar work will be taken over by humanoid robots.
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Bill Gates: Before AI Creates "True Abundance," Humanity Will Go Through 20 Years of Turmoil
Speaking on the Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said AI will create "true abundance," but that the roughly 20-year transition period before then will be "as turbulent as any period in human history," with winners and losers and a great deal of chaos. He expects white-collar jobs such as telemarketing, phone customer service and accounting to disappear, while blue-collar work will be taken over by humanoid robots, and he suggested that activities such as art, sports, cooking and parenting be reserved for humans.
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Rohan Paul
Bill Gates says AI is the most dangerous technology to date
In an interview on The Verge's Decoder podcast, Bill Gates said humanity has crossed a certain capability threshold, that AI is the most dangerous technology to date, and that it will have broad impacts on the economy and the way wars are fought. This clip was cited by Rohan Paul on X, and the full video was published on the Decoder with Nilay Patel YouTube channel.
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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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