{"id":2651943,"date":"2026-08-30T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-claims-bad-stuff-is-imminent-as-ai-accelerates\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:10:47","slug":"bill-gates-claims-bad-stuff-is-imminent-as-ai-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-claims-bad-stuff-is-imminent-as-ai-accelerates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Claims &#8216;Bad Stuff Is Imminent&#8217; as AI Accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-claims-bad-stuff-is-imminent-as-ai-accelerates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2651943&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, expressed concerns about the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) adn its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-titan-reid-hoffman-praises-biden-after-private-artificial-intelligence-talk\/\" title=\"Reid Hoffman, renowned tech titan, lauds Biden following private ... discussion\">potential societal impacts<\/a>. He warned that society is unprepared for the transition into an AI-driven era, noting risks such as AI acting against human interests, enabling biological weapons, cybersecurity threats, and job displacement, especially for low- and middle-income workers. Gates highlighted the difficulty in balancing AI&#8217;s positive advancements, like medical breakthroughs, with its perilous potential, including bioterrorism and misuse by bad actors. To mitigate these risks, he proposed measures such as taxing AI usage to slow its progression, support retraining efforts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/day-care-nightmare-1-infant-dead-3-children-hospitalized-after-possibly-ingesting-fentanyl-report\/\" title=\"Tragic Day Care Incident: 1 Infant Fatality, 3 Children Ill from Possible Fentanyl Consumption - Report\">strengthen safety protocols<\/a>. Gates emphasized the importance of shaping AI development responsibly to prevent harm and ensure it benefits society.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates alleged that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than society can contain it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The tech titan said that the world is unprepared for the transition into an AI era, in his Wednesday <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> \u201cThe turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.\u201d Gates claimed AI could soon act against human interests, design biological weapons and displace workers, among the many arguments made in his essay to call for a global slowdown on AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThe good stuff is moving a bit slowly, and \u2026 other than robots, I\u2019d say the bad stuff is imminent,\u201d Gates <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/26\/bill-gates-sounds-the-alarm-on-an-ai-transition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Axios Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201c[W]e need time to prepare for the social, political, and economic upheaval we are about to enter,\u201d he said in his essay, which laid out the ways he believes \u201cbad actors who have relatively little power now\u201d will be enabled to do harm to the world with AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Gates warned that cybersecurity attacks on infrastructure and \u201cbioterrorism\u201d should make people concerned about AI\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cAlthough AI will lead to lifesaving advances in drugs and vaccines, it will also make it easier to design a deadly new disease,\u201d Gates wrote. \u201cAgain, the positive capabilities are hard to separate from the dangerous ones. This is a global problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">RAND recently outlined a plan with several mitigating strategies to restrict bad actors from creating biological weapons with AI tools such as Anthropic\u2019s Claude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed incidents in which their respective AI models hacked into real companies in recent months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Gates argued entry-level and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doge-dismantling-further-erodes-faith-in-trump\/\" title=\"DOGE dismantling further erodes f...th in Trump\">mid-level jobs<\/a> could disappear because of AI and compared this speculated loss to the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThe people who need the most time are the ones who have the least\u2014the accounting worker who\u2019s replaced by a bot or the $20-an-hour worker who loses their job to a $10-an-hour robot,\u201d Gates wrote in his essay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Gates Foundation, Stieler Technology &#038; Market Advisory, RAND, Innovation Council Action and the Center for AI Safety each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201c[AI] has definitely got to be shaped,\u201d Gates <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RT_on_X\/status\/2092529252902035653?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in an Interview with Bloomberg, reposted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Gates proposed multiple solutions to slow the progress of AI. Notably, he suggested a tax on AI robots and token usage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cThe [current] tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines,\u201d Gates wrote in his essay. \u201cA tax [on AI] would slow the rush away from human labor a little and raise money for retraining and a stronger safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">AI tokens are small pieces of text that AI models break language into so they can process it, <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/help.openai.com\/en\/articles\/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to OpenAI\u2019s \u2018Help\u2019 page. 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