Bill Gates strongly backs Ray Dalio: People are attacking the person who is most willing to openly discuss negative risks.

Beating AI Express News: Bill Gates Rarely Publicly Backs Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Gates pointed out that recent AI advances have far exceeded his expectations. After thoroughly studying Claude Code this year, even in programming—an area he is familiar with—he was shocked: “Many of these AIs are already better than me in many aspects.” He warned that AI could sweep across industries, causing mass unemployment; an even more extreme risk is that a small number of people could design new pathogens using advanced AI. Dario has long publicly warned about AI risks. This year, he clashed openly with the Pentagon over his insistence on restricting Claude from being used for large-scale domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons lacking reliable safeguards. His warnings have also strained his relations with the White House and many in the tech industry. Gates said bluntly: “People are attacking the person who is most willing to openly talk about negative risks.” He then shifted his criticism to the entire AI sector. He noted that those who truly understand AI’s capabilities are privately “very worried,” but many executives are reluctant to admit this publicly because the industry still has “the next trillion-dollar” in financing to pursue. He argues that huge commercial interests are leading the industry to actively downplay risks. Gates believes corporate self-regulation can no longer be relied on. He advocates establishing domestic and international AI regulatory systems, including mandatory reviews of high-risk capabilities that could be used to create new pathogens; designating some roles as “Human Reserved Positions” that must be performed by humans; and imposing taxes on AI tokens and robots to slow the pace of machine replacement of humans, using the tax revenue to support the unemployed.