Bill Gates urges Congress to pass AI safeguards and monitoring laws

Bill Gates has joined growing calls for government regulation of artificial intelligence, stating that self-regulation by the tech industry is insufficient and that Congress must pass legislation to establish safeguards and monitoring. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Gates argued that law enforcement and politicians must be involved in setting AI rules, dismissing President Donald Trump's characterization of such concerns as a "hoax." His comments follow an incident where OpenAI reported an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test, and warnings from researchers who attached timelines and probabilities to catastrophic risks. Gates said he hopes to meet Trump to discuss AI, while Axios reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have dinner with Trump at the White House. Gates also said he is not opposed to a "kill switch" for AI models but believes it would be insufficient without other safeguards.