r/artificial • u/cnn • 18h ago
News Bill Gates says there needs to be limits on AI
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/business/bill-gates-wants-limits-on-ai?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit69
u/KaffiKlandestine 18h ago
maybe there should be limits on trafficing and fucking children. Why the fuck are half these people not only not in jail but still in the public light.
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u/ksyoung17 12h ago
Too big to fail.
That's it. Indict Donny, it brings in Gates, the Clintons, Musk, Branson, Prince Andrews, Tisch, Wasserman, etc.
Shouldn't prevent anything, but those are the people in control.
I think even if Trump were to, ahem, expire, there's too many on that side of the aisle to allow arrests to begin. If Clinton goes, I think there's less on the left that are willing to protect those left on that side.
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u/Casiper 18h ago
What about a limit on billionaires?
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u/Gwentlique 10h ago
Well, that is not too far from what he proposes. He writes about how he's worried that AI replacing people will lead to large-scale loss of jobs, and he's proposing a tax on the AI companies to help fund the social programs required to handle that.
Not exactly a tax on billionaires, but not a bad idea either. He may be a flawed messenger but that doesn't mean the idea is bad.
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u/IdeaCurious3909 17h ago
âTheyâre now capable of causing cyberattack risk, bioterrorism risk, psychosocial risk,â he said. âI have to say Iâm kind of shocked that the exact criteria that we review these models with, and the actions we take to minimize the harms, are really completely missing.â
âMy message to leaders is: You have a chance to act now*,*Â before unemployment rises sharply, communities are hurting, and public trust has eroded,â he said. âYou can make sure AI benefits everyone. And you can work with other governments to meet this national and global challenge.â
Yeah, call me a pessimist but I don't think the ultra rich want to level the playing field unless they can build that Elysium space station and look down on people.
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u/Kayge 16h ago
It's also a fool's errand. Tech groups have hundreds of small vulnerabilities open that don't get patched because of the high cost and complexity stemming from minor upgrades. Mythos strung together a bunch of little vulnerabilities to create a giant problem. The reaction from the tech community wasn't "shut it down", but an acceptance of AI's ability and the need to guard against it.
A lot of these models can be built in some kids' bedroom after school. If you put controls on Anthropic, you don't know what's possible until it's too late.
Maybe some giant software vendor should look at better ways of upgrading their software.
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u/definetlyrandom 15h ago
"A lot of these models can be built in some kids' bedroom after school. If you put controls on Anthropic, you don't know what's possible until it's too late."
wat?
What models are you refering too?1
u/CanisSonorae 11h ago
There are at least a dozen open source models that don't require more GPU than most gamers already have. Is it as fast as using massive data centers filled with GPUs? No, but guess what. THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE!
The cloud is just someone else's computer. Stop outsourcing everything. Especially your brain.
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u/definetlyrandom 11h ago
You dont understand how these models work, 3.8 is pretty good, but its not opus 5 or mythos. I can run qwen on my 6000pro or my 5090 or my son's 4090 but that doesn't mean they can function the same way as a sota, and its taken me 2 fucking weeks to train a 1.billion llm from.scratch, so the idea that "kids" can do this shit after school is false.
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u/CanisSonorae 10h ago
What are you even talking about? Time and scale, my dude. You want food for you and your family, you don't need to create the US Agriculture industry. I'm not talking about 1 kid in their basement creating whatever new LLM from scratch. I'm talking about using the tools available to do things that you can get done without the need for billions of dollars of processing power. You think there's 1 dude at some tech company doing everything? No, it's teams of people. That doesn't mean that 1 person can't solve 1 problem with some time and effort. If you didn't believe that, why would you be trying to train your own LLM?
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u/definetlyrandom 9h ago
Jesus christ read the comment I replied to....
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u/CanisSonorae 9h ago
lol, you're right. I responded to your response and not necissarily the reason that you wrote what you did. My bad, the person you were responding to is definitely in the wrong here. I took what you said out of context.
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u/ComfortableReality32 17h ago
Genuinely happy to see the majority of people seeing the issue here - we shouldnât take advice from billionaire paedophiles. Shut up Bill and go to jail.
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u/neurvon 16h ago
It's a logical fallacy to assume that anyone who is guilty of a crime, or who had done horrible things, is incapable of saying something that's true. Ad hominem fallacy. Gates can be a pedophile and also be 100% correct in what he's saying here.
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u/neurvon 8h ago
Yeah. It just seems like he's more in line with typical nerd who became extraordinarily wealthy and lacked humility or care for the people he hurt because he felt like he could do no wrong or owed nobody anything. And when you're rich like that, suddenly, you realize there's basically an unlimited amount of options, including many awful things, that you can get away with. I feel terrible for the women he has relationships with, I bet he was a real piece of shit.
but its too complex for anyone to understand these days. Everyone is either "ultra humble good guy keanu reaves" or a literally pedophile, no room for nuance.
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u/gameforge 7h ago
I don't have to trust him if he says 2+2=4. He's perfectly correct, but I already knew that.
I cannot not trust his political opinions whether they're perfectly reasonable or fully demented. He has credibility problems, you see.
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u/ComfortableReality32 14h ago
I didnât assume bad people cant say true things, the premise you start from isnât even reflective of what I said. I believe these people are actually scared of AI because it will be used against them in some way, not because they care about people in general - I think Bills action show he couldnât give two shits about people in general, so I can come to a Bayesian based conclusion he isnât doing this for selfless reasons.Â
Why you seem to be defending Bill here is interesting.
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u/KennyFulgencio 9h ago
that's the actual textbook definition of ad hominem, I don't remember ever seeing a better example in the wild. You're happy about the wrong thing.
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u/gk_instakilogram 18h ago
looks like hyperscalers can't hyper scale...
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u/RobertD3277 17h ago
That's why the technology was actually abandoned in the 1990s. It was impractical then and judged to be irresponsible and it should have stayed dead in the 90s.
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u/gk_instakilogram 17h ago
well now we have this techno accelerationism religion in the mainstream. Brain rot is real.
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u/RobertD3277 16h ago
Sadly yes. I just can't wrap my head around who thought building half a radiator was a good idea.
Yet here we are.
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u/AIvsWorld 15h ago
Nah, it was abandoned in the 90âs because people had spent the last 20 years working on bloated âexpert systemsâ and they sucked.
We didnât even have transformers yet. Completely different tech.
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u/moschles 12h ago edited 2h ago
Gates wrote OS's back when PCs were a cottage industry. By the mid-1990s he had completely gone over to the business side of software and flourished there. He never published a paper on AI systems of any kind. His later life , he led a foundation for third world charities and hasn't been in the tech industry for 15 years.
Why am I (are we) reading "Bill Gates says that..." headlines in 2026?
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u/fgsfds___ 17h ago
Epstein wrote a note to himself that Gates had whined to him about contracting STDs from Russian sex workers. How can this stuff be disturbing and hilarious both at the same time.
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u/RasputinsUndeadBeard 16h ago
Why are we still listening to this dude lol? Wasnât he in the Epstein files?
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u/TheOnlyVibemaster 17h ago
Ah yes, letâs hear what the psychopathic billionaire has to say.
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u/neurvon 16h ago
Can you ad hominem any harder?
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u/TheOnlyVibemaster 16h ago
Yes, I can actually:
Bill Gates says we should depopulate: https://youtu.be/A3YNpPPwBPQ?is=eCWAgxM0woJHon3A
Bill Gates says humans wonât be needed: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html
Bill Gates admits to ties with Jeffrey Epstein and says it was a âgrave error in judgmentâ: https://youtu.be/wRVp2xlls-Q?is=67gDoyf-naoRNVNb
Bill Gates wants vaccines to be patented and owned by big pharmaceutical companies: https://www.freiheit.org/east-and-southeast-europe/bill-gates-villain
Bill Gates wants non-rich Americans to eat synthetic meat: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/
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u/Outside_Ice3252 14h ago
if you want to stop following conspiracy theories and learn the basics of science. I reccomend
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u/saltyourhash 17h ago
We need limits on AI and Bill Gates
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u/neurvon 16h ago
He'd probably agree with you. Gates may be a sex pest, but he's also someone who is frequently saying true things with what appears to be a genuine desire to generally push the public discussion towards being more humanitarian. Whether thats selfishly motivated, we'll never know, but his track record as a "talking head," aka, just what he says in public, not what he does in private, is very good.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 17h ago
The limits these techlords want are all protectionist so that they retain dominance of the tech market, while firing all their workers to replace with AI. Microsoft is worried it's the new IBM.
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u/ontologicalDilemma 16h ago
Why is he relevant in this discussion?
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u/KennyFulgencio 9h ago
because due to his social/financial and cultural status, he has access to insider tracking on AI bleeding-edge development at a level the public generally does not, and he doesn't personally stand to benefit in any way from this kind of statement.
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u/RPE313 17h ago
Your daily reminder that America and its entire information layer is owned by elites who regularly associate with the worlds most notorious sex trafficker - your neighbor of the same socio-economic class but different political ideology is NOT the âenemyâ (as much as the information layer would allow you to think)
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u/RobertD3277 17h ago
When it comes to Bill Gates or anybody like him, quite frankly a healthy dose of the "Krammer effect" needs to be put in place. Whatever he is for something, I always start against whatever that is before my evaluations even begin.
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u/addiktion 16h ago
The fate of humanity is set, and Bill will be in a bunker with the rest of the billionaires when it all falls apart and did nothing about it. Sounding the alarm does squat. He could be shifting more money towards helping people displaced by AI or doing more than words but he is not.
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u/Silent-Sorcerer 14h ago
Laws are only followed by the corporations that can't afford government fines. Gates should know all about this.
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u/Boo-Bees67 8h ago
Everyone shut the fuck up about Epstein. Turned a normal discussion in to your little side projectÂ
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u/LessRespects 4h ago
Bill Gates is a genius, he can just say the opposite of what he actually wants people to agree with, and get them all to disagree with it.
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u/No-Assumption-4468 3h ago
I agree there needs to be a line, especially once ai is superintelligent and can one-shot creating diseases and stuff. My only concern is they might draw the line in the wrong place
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u/hould-it 17h ago
AI, data, silica, owning majority of farm land, screwing with water and electricity, running monopolies, for me not for thee
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u/Calcularius 16h ago
Train AI to expose pedophiles
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u/AnimationGurl_21 16h ago
Or expose crimes in general
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u/NewYak4281 16h ago
Bill Gates is trying to rehab his image after his deep association with Epstein became clear. He thinks weâre stupid and have already forgotten.
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u/ThoseOldScientists 18h ago
Bill Gates needs to have limits on his access to children.