{"id":1040177,"date":"2026-10-01T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040177"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:24:58","slug":"100-million-deaths-cant-be-settled-with-a-lawsuit-bill-gates-rejects-argument-that-ai-companies-can-police-themselves-says-i-almost-cant-keep-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/100-million-deaths-cant-be-settled-with-a-lawsuit-bill-gates-rejects-argument-that-ai-companies-can-police-themselves-says-i-almost-cant-keep-a\/","title":{"rendered":"100 million deaths can&#8217;t be settled with a lawsuit, Bill Gates rejects argument that AI companies can police themselves; says: I almost can&#8217;t keep a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has rejected the idea that lawsuits and market pressure can keep artificial intelligence companies in check. Asked why product liability and reputational damage aren&#8217;t enough to stop firms from releasing dangerous AI, Gates answered with a question of his own. &#8220;So say you kill 100 million people, you want to use a lawsuit?&#8221; he said on &#8220;The Ezra Klein Show.&#8221; &#8220;I almost can&#8217;t keep a straight face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The episode was released on September 29, the same day US President Donald Trump and the heads of the largest AI companies signed a voluntary safety pact at the White House. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has rejected the idea that lawsuits and market pressure can keep artificial intelligence companies in check. Asked why product liability and reputational damage aren&#8217;t enough to stop firms from releasing dangerous AI, Gates answered with a question of his own. &#8220;So say you kill 100 million people, you want to use a lawsuit?&#8221; he said on &#8220;The Ezra Klein Show.&#8221; &#8220;I almost can&#8217;t keep a straight face.&#8221; The episode was released on September 29, the same day US President Donald Trump and the heads of the largest AI companies signed a voluntary safety pact at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040178,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040177\/revisions\/1040178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}