Bill Gates says AI is powerful enough to cause a billion deaths and self-regulation isn't enough.

In excerpts NBC released September 25 ahead of Meet the Press, Gates said "AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that... cause a billion deaths" and "there's never been a weapon as powerful," calling for laws, mandatory monitoring and government-enforced safeguards. One day before OpenAI's agent disclosures. Jensen Huang, meanwhile, told Anderson Cooper that AI "is software, it's math," said agents need access controls and sandboxes like "digital employees," and answered the Hugging Face question with "that's a question for OpenAI." Gary Marcus's response was that the new disclosures make Huang look "deeply out of touch."