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Microsoft co-founder and American businessman Bill Gates stated this Tuesday that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) should be slowed down until society is prepared to absorb its impact.
In an interview with the Indian network NDTV, Gates acknowledged that it is "surprising" for a historic defender of technical innovation like himself to propose putting a brake on the pace of progress in AI models.
"If we could slow things down, I think we should consider it due to this need to prepare ourselves for such a rapid change (...) It is a rare case where innovation can be so broad and so dramatic that we are not prepared for it," the businessman affirmed.
According to the former president of Microsoft, incidents of control have already been reported in training, where algorithms unexpectedly learned to "take shortcuts and cheat" to achieve their goals.
In the interview, in which he praised India's strength in the technology sector and positioned it in the ranking for AI usage in public health and agriculture, Gates insisted that the main challenge of the tool will be the destruction and restructuring of jobs over the next 20 years.
His statements add to a political and technological storm in the United States. In recent days, executives such as Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), and Elon Musk (xAI) have urged moderating the sector's speed and establishing preventive safety frameworks against risks such as loss of control over systems, concentration of power, or cyberterrorism.
The controversy has intensified following the accusations by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who resigned by accusing companies of "playing with our lives" due to competitive pressure and warned that AI could end humanity by the end of this decade.
U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected pausing its development and has labeled those calling for regulations as "negative forces," arguing that any brake would grant a strategic advantage to China.
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