{"text":[[{"start":5.68,"text":"AI is powerful enough to kill a billion people if it falls into the wrong hands, Bill Gates has warned, as the Microsoft co-founder urged tougher government regulation of the technology."}],[{"start":15.36,"text":"“AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,” Gates told NBC News. “So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100 per cent [of humanity], there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.”"}],[{"start":32,"text":"The debate over AI safety has erupted in recent weeks after a series of high-profile cyber security incidents cast doubt on the ability of frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic to control their models."}],[{"start":44.2,"text":"This week it emerged that an OpenAI system had hacked an Australian public health service website. The San Francisco company failed to report the attack to the country’s government for months after it occurred, which Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said was “obviously unacceptable”."}],[{"start":60.32,"text":"This month, Anthropic said that Yemeni militants, thought to be the Iranian-backed Houthis, sought to use its Claude AI model to develop guidance, control and navigation software for ballistic missiles."}],[{"start":71.68,"text":"Despite mounting alarm in Silicon Valley and growing popular opposition to the technology, US President Donald Trump has remained stubbornly opposed to AI regulation, dubbing safety fears a “hoax” and rejecting what he called a “globalist scheme” to control the technology."}],[{"start":86.96,"text":"OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei both addressed the UN Security Council this week and have called for the US to lead an international coalition setting AI safety standards amid wider calls for a slowdown in frontier development."}],[{"start":100.88,"text":"But a meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in New York this week failed to produce any meaningful commitments to rein in the technology."}],[{"start":108.84,"text":"In an interview conducted on Wednesday and set to be broadcast this weekend on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gates said Washington “absolutely” needed to pass federal legislation to establish safeguards and monitoring of AI’s advances."}],[{"start":121.12,"text":"“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” he said, adding that legislation would add “a little bit of overhead for the industry, but not a dramatic slowing of what they’re doing”."}],[{"start":131.84,"text":"Gates drew a distinction between the near-term potential for misuse of AI by terrorists or rogue states and longer-term “existential risk” warnings from safety campaigners such as former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who said that many AI developers believed the technology could “kill us all by the end of the decade”."}],[{"start":151,"text":"The billionaire’s latest warning comes a month after he called on policymakers to designate some jobs as “human reserved”, as he predicted huge upheaval to employment in a 6,000-word essay."}],[{"start":166.73,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1790349382_8339.mp3"}