Gates says Trump is downplaying AI dangers, reflecting a broader societal blind spot

Bill Gates said President Trump’s dismissal of artificial-intelligence risks as a “hoax” underscores a wider public blind spot about the speed and scale of recent advances. In a CBS Mornings interview, Gates called AI an “evolutionary event” that could boost productivity and services while also enabling bioterrorism and financial crimes, echoing calls by industry leaders to temper the pace of development. Gates argued that political leadership on AI could yield global credit and said the Gates Foundation will spend $1 billion over two years to expand access to AI tools in education, healthcare and agriculture, particularly for non-English languages, via a 60-member coalition including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and the OpenAI Foundation. He warned that white-collar roles in law, customer service, medicine, software and manufacturing face faster disruption than in prior tech shifts, with policy needed to cushion job losses.

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