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Bill Gates Warns of AI Risks at Film Festival

Updated 2026-09-06 17:25 UTC 1 source Negative

At the Telluride Film Festival, Bill Gates compared the lack of control over artificial intelligence to HAL in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' highlighting potential dangers.

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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…”‘

Plenty of comparisons have been made in recent years between fast-developing artificial intelligence systems and HAL, the rogue computer in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” that operated by its own sets of rules, ultimately disregarding human oversight. If that comparison

2026-09-06 17:08 UTC