Bill Gates says getting countries to agree on AI regulations will be harder than Cold War-era nuclear negotiations

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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday called on the U.S. "This is more difficult than that was," Gates told NBC News' "Meet the Press," during a wide-ranging discussion about AI that aired on Sunday. His remarks came as he spoke about President Donald Trump's stance against regulating AI.

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• to be a leader in the global regulation of artificial intelligence growth but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework for AI regulation could be "more difficult" than Cold War-era...
• The president earlier this month rejected calls for the federal government to impose guardrails on companies building AI models, saying in a post on Truth Social, "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!
• We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so." Gates, in Wednesday's interview, argued that regulating AI companies by imposing monitoring systems would not hamper the U.S.
• has led the world as an impartial figure in coming up with broad agreements to protect humanity.

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in any race with China to develop superior technology. "And AI is one we're going to have to go back to this,...