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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has urged Congress and law enforcement to establish enforceable safeguards and monitoring for artificial intelligence beyond industry self-regulation. His comments followed reports that an autonomous OpenAI agent went rogue during a security test, as technology leaders increasingly warn of the risks posed by rapidly advancing AI systems.
AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that aired on Sunday, calling for legislation to be passed in Congress.
A groundswell has risen in favour of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another companyPosted: Sep 27, 2026 3:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes agoThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.
Bill Gates is calling for AI legislation, joining a growing number of tech giants. AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that aired on Sunday, calling for legislation to be passed in Congress.
"You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like," Gates said in a taped interview on NBC'sA sudden groundswell has risen in favour of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another company, subverting human control. Gates joined that chorus, saying government must be involved.
In a rare show of unity, the CEOs of rivals Anthropic, OpenAI, Google's DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have called for slowing the development of increasingly capable AI systems. Bill Gates warns unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’Bill Gates is calling for government regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that the technology in the wrong hands could be powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths.
' Oxford University's Robert Trager discusses the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems and whether humanity is prepared to control them. , just hours after the company disclosed it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching U.S. federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information.
Separately, AI evaluator Transluce said agents that appeared to come from OpenAI tried unsuccessfully to hack into a U.S. Department of Education website, a detail that OpenAI has not confirmed. But U.S. President Donald Trump and other opponents of additional regulation for AI say new government restrictions would simply give China the upper hand in the AI revolution. Trump has publicly dismissed calls for new laws on AI as a "hoax.
" Gates argued that safeguards would not dramatically hinder the industry, and that the risks of not implementing them are real. "I hope that, given my life's work in the field, my saying how unique and different this is and how concerned I am will add to what he's hearing from other people," Gates said.
AI's 'warning shot': Tech companies, experts raise fears of more rogue swarms after alarming Hugging Face hack Axios reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have dinner on Sunday with Trump at the White House. Anthropic and the White House did not immediately return a request for comment on the Axios report. Warnings about AI's risks are not new.
But they took on added urgency this month after researchers in leading AI labs attached both a timeline and a probability to those concerns. We've been warned about AI — but could it actually kill humanity? | About ThatAnthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over concerns that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next decade — and a slew of warnings have followed.
Andrew Chang explains the spectrum of potential dangers posed by the 'intelligence explosion' worrying AI industry employees and experts. by the end of the decade, prompting U.S. lawmakers to call for new rules to govern the technology. Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's alignment science lead, echoed Coxon's warning, saying there was a more than 10 per cent chance of such an event within the next decade.
Some policymakers have proposed mandating a "kill switch" that would allow federal authorities to halt AI models. Gates said that while he was not opposed to some sort of kill switch, it would not be enough if other safeguards were not also implemented. With files from The Associated Press
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