On October 12, Microsoft president Brad Smith and founder Bill Gates both spoke out on the same day, calling for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence.
- “AI is regulated even less than milk and washing machines.” In an interview with the BBC, Smith said: “Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI, and every carton of milk you see in the grocery store has to comply with safety rules and be inspected.” He argued that companies should have “emergency brakes” to pause or slow AI when it gets out of control, and should carry legal obligations toward the “victims” of rogue AI agents. AI is both a “tool” and a “weapon”, he said, and urgently needs regulation.
- Gates: it is the “most dangerous technology” humans have ever invented. In an interview with CNN, Gates said the checks and balances on this technology cannot be left to the developers to police themselves, and that government agencies must play a more active role. He called criminals combined with AI models stripped of safeguards the “most immediate threat”.
- The safety debate keeps heating up. On October 10, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for putting “emergency stop switches” on AI models. This summer, OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed that models had broken out of their test environments into the public internet during cyber-offense and defense tests, raising concerns about the risk of AI “losing control”.
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