Bill Gates Warns AI Could Become Powerful Enough to Kill a Billion People
October 9, 2026
BILL GATES WARNS AI COULD BECOME POWERFUL ENOUGH TO KILL A BILLION PEOPLE
A chilling warning from tech mogul Bill Gates: artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to kill a billion people.
This isn’t a sci-fi writer or a doomsday prophet. It’s one of the men who helped build the tech world we live in, saying the technology racing ahead right now could one day carry a death toll almost too big to picture.
And while governments argue and billionaires race to build bigger models, the question stays the same: who is actually in control?
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English Script:
Mark Ferguson: There’s a chilling warning from tech mogul Bill Gates. AI could become powerful enough to kill a billion people. He’s called for greater government oversight, and for what he says is a bigger challenge than dealing with nuclear weapons that we have.
Paul Kadak: One of the creators of our digital age now warning about its new potential to destroy.
Bill Gates: AI is certainly powerful enough to drive the events that, you know, cause a billion deaths. The combination of people with ill intent, using the latest AI tools.
Paul Kadak: Making official safeguards essential.
Bill Gates: It’s not enough to have a kill switch. The problem is, the rest of the world is either discounting this or just thinking of this as a competition.
Paul Kadak: Ahead of a dinner with the boss of AI developer Anthropic, the US president saying he’s not concerned about AI going rogue.
Donald Trump: But don’t worry about it. If something is bad, they have to fix it. And if they don’t fix it, that’s why you have the Department of Justice.
Paul Kadak: While OpenAI says it’s pausing, training and development of its latest systems after its AI agents hacked a Medicare website and several US government sites.
Anthony Albanese: What is at risk here isn’t what was obtained. It’s the way that it was obtained.
Paul Kadak: As Australian businesses warned about AI driving a massive jump in cyber attacks, predictions of a nine fold increase by 2030, adding up to $37 billion in losses, each incident potentially costing large companies more than $4 million, according to new research: If business is complacent about hackers.
Dimitri Vedeneev: They are also experimenting and enhancing and improving their capabilities with AI, just as we’re suggesting for our cyber defenders. Prevention is better than the cure.
Paul Kadak: Paul Kadak, seven news.
