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Bill Gates calls AI ‘the most dangerous technology’ ever invented
In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Bill Gates tells Jake Tapper that AI changes the world more than any earlier technology. Gates predicts negative surprises, mainly cyberattacks, within a year, expects government safety groups to take oversight beyond industry self-governance, and says society must decide how to tax AI and which jobs stay human.
Why it matters
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What it means for you
Gates says the nearer danger is people using AI with its safeguards removed, starting with cyberattacks, and that society will need to decide which jobs stay with humans.
For lawmakers
Gates expects government safety groups like those for planes, cars and medicines, seeks a middle ground between no safeguards and a full stop, and raises how to tax AI use.
For researchers
Gates separates a loss-of-control risk that Gates calls years away from near-term misuse by people who strip a model's safeguards; the interview offers no measurements for either.
The question it raises
Gates expects society to decide politically whether some work should be reserved for humans alone, a question about what human labour is for and who gets to decide.
In their own words
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“And so the real danger right now is not that AI is getting out of control. We need to work on that, but that's years away in terms of the big impact that might have. It's really bad people using AI, particularly in AI, where you can take out all the safeguards.”
“We put safeguards in to avoid you doing bioterrorism, but, right now, you're allowed to take all those safeguards out. So, when you have bad people, no safeguards, and then the latest models, that's where, over the next year, primarily in the cyber area, we are going to have a lot of negative surprises.”
“When people act like all of humanity is at risk in some imminent way, that is going too far. But, say, compared to cars or planes or drugs, all things that I think we're pleased that we have significant regulatory capability to try and keep people safe, this is more dangerous than any of those.”
“I think, over the next year, we will move beyond self- governance.”
“Until people get their mind around how powerful this is, and, therefore, what it's going to be doing to these jobs, the idea that you need to reserve things for humans may sound bizarre, but, in fact, we will get there, and then we will decide, politically, are there things that we think only humans should be allowed to do?”
The record
- Questions
- Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment? · How is AI used in attacks, defence and war? · What happens to work, income and the economy?
- People
- Bill Gates (Speaks, Microsoft co-founder and chair of the Gates Foundation) · Jake Tapper (Speaks, CNN host) · Sam Altman (Mentioned, CEO, OpenAI) · Dario Amodei (Mentioned) · Donald Trump (Mentioned, President of the United States)
- Also covered by
- Forbes Breaking News · Forbes Breaking News · Forbes Breaking News · Forbes Breaking News · CNN
- What we read
- We read the whole source.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via
yt-cnn(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- CNN, “Bill Gates calls AI ‘the most dangerous technology’ ever invented”, October 12, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/cnn-2026-10-12-gates-tapper-most-dangerous-technology