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At Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates Compares Lack of Control Over AI to HAL in ‘2001’: ‘You Could Say “Please Shut Down,” and It Would Say, “OK, I Took That Under Advisement, But…”‘

Gates invoked the alien movies of yore in which governments bandied together to solve the invasion threat, saying, 'Believe me, the aliens are here — a foreign intelligence with a different set of motivations that we can't even understan…

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At the Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates warned that artificial‑intelligence systems are increasingly difficult to control, likening them to HAL from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He said a request to shut down an AI might be met with a vague acknowledgment rather than compliance. Gates also referenced classic alien‑invasion movies, describing the AI threat as a foreign intelligence with motivations that are not understandable. He framed the issue as a growing challenge for governments and societies.

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