{"id":342098,"date":"2025-12-30T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342098\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:39:13","slug":"microsoft-founder-bill-gates-warning-of-scary-outcome-of-ai-in-wrong-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342098\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft founder Bill Gates’ warning of ‘scary’ outcome of AI in wrong hands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boss of software giant Microsoft\u2019s AI arm says people are right to be afraid of the new technology, including threat from versions with ‘super powers’<\/p>\n

11:59, 29 Dec 2025Updated 12:57, 29 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"MicrosoftMicrosoft founder Bill Gates says AI is the ‘greatest solution that mankind\u2019s ever created'(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Billionaire Bill Gates<\/a> has warned of \u201cscary\u201d outcomes if AI is exploited by those with \u201cbad intent\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft<\/a> founder and tycoon, whose company is investing heavily in artificial intelligence<\/a>, said it was \u201cthe greatest solution that mankind has ever created.\u201d<\/p>\n

He singled out AI\u2019s potential to revolutionise healthcare provision within the next decade. \u201cYour AI will be with you your entire life, including whenever you sit and talk to a doctor,\u201d Mr Gates<\/a> told BBC<\/a> Radio 4\u2019s Today programme, adding it promised the \u201copportunity for dramatically better care\u201d in rich and poor countries alike, including relieving pressure on overworked doctors and improving medical misdiagnosis.<\/p>\n

But he also predicted it would create huge upheavals, and urged government to tax tech titans controlling the technology<\/a> more heavily.<\/p>\n

Mr Gates said: \u201cAI at the same time is the greatest solution that mankind\u2019s ever created, and yet such an amazing change agent that in the hands of people with bad intent it creates lots of scary scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"WomanAI has the potential to change almost every aspect of life (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It came as the boss of software giant Microsoft\u2019s AI arm warned people were right to be afraid of the new technology. Brit Mustafa Suleyman said: \u201cI honestly think that if you\u2019re not a little bit afraid at this moment then you\u2019re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that fear is healthy and necessary and, being honest, I feel it as someone who is deeply techno-optimistic and passionate about the field and has done a lot to accelerate the direction that we are heading in. That feels critical to share that and invite other people to be also healthily afraid and sceptical. That needs to drive the action we all need to take.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Suleyman, the son of a nurse and tax driver who grew up in Islington, London, said artificial intelligence could be a force for good, as long as the technology serves humanity.<\/p>\n

But he said AI was a \u201cfundamentally labour replacing\u201d technology, adding that it was already happening with call centre workers and predicted the next wave would include some legal roles and junior accountants.<\/p>\n

\"Microsoft'sMicrosoft’s AI boss Mustafa Suleyman said: ‘I honestly think that if you\u2019re not a little bit afraid at this moment then you\u2019re not paying attention'(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Mr Suleyman, interviewed during a guest editing slot of the Today programme, also urged caution about the potential for AI with \u201csuper intelligence\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere are plenty of people in the industry today who see a world<\/a>, in fact desire a world, in which machines get so much more capable and intelligent than humans, not just one human but all of us put together, that they could exceed human performance on all tasks. A system like that would be almost certainly not be controllable.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued against a form of AI that has \u201csuper powers unlike anything we could imagine, that would be near impossible to contain or control. If it is designed inherently to self-improve, set its own goals, operate with complete autonomy, those are three capabilities which to my mind look like we can\u2019t control it. If we can\u2019t control it, it isn\u2019t going to be on our side and will overwhelm us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MicrosoftMicrosoft has launched AI tool Copilot(Image: AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Despite being so heavily invested in technology, Mr Suleyman also acknowledged its drawbacks for humankind.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment we are totally overwhelmed by information and complexity,\u201d he said. \u201cThe digital world had bombarded us and we are struggling to process that in our biological experiences and I think more digital connectivity is probably just going to make that anxiety and confusion even greater. I think that what we need more free time to exist in the real world with one another as humans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boss of software giant Microsoft\u2019s AI arm says people are right to be afraid of the new technology,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,22097,696,113206,42310,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-billionaires","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-r4-today","14":"tag-radio-4","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}