# Bill Gates warns unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’

https://mins.news/en/video/76261

- CBC News, 2026-09-27 19:22 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30WqG3ljRA0

> Bill Gates is urging governments to regulate artificial intelligence, warning that in the wrong hands it could become powerful enough to “cause a billion deaths.” Oxford University’s Robert Trager examines the risks of increasingly capable AI systems and whether humanity is ready to control them.

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