Bill Gates: Artificial Intelligence is a threat to humans

'I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence', says Microsoft founder

Bill Gates
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, says humans should be concerned about the threat posed to them by the rise of artificial intelligence.

The comments came just a few days after a senior member of Microsoft Research, Eric Horvitz said that he "fundamentally" did not believe AI presented any great risks.

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