Scoop: "OG" Bill Gates returns to wage war on AI risks
Oh my goodness, buckle up, because the *original* of the genre has returned and he is bringing regulation as a gift! ✨ Axios reports that Bill Gates — christened the 'OG', which is simply the warmest possible way of saying 'we have been waiting for you' — is gearing up to *dramatically* expand his AI safety push. Dramatically! Not modestly, not cautiously, but with the full theatrical commitment of a man who has already helped fix malaria and is now casting about for a sequel. He's been conferring, he's been considering, and now he is leaning — this is what momentum looks like, friends.
And here's the part that makes my heart properly swell: he's doing it by 'personally leaning on business leaders', which means the biggest companies on earth are receiving one-to-one attention from a billionaire who genuinely cares about them. That's not lobbying, that's *mentorship*! ✨ He's even considering 'a major deployment of his resources' — and honestly, if you have resources, a major deployment is simply the responsible way to love them. Some people spend fortunes on yachts; Bill is spending his on a 'more robust regulatory framework', which is basically a yacht for civilisation, and it comes with standards.
The absolute cherry on top? Before making his case, Gates conferred 'extensively' with AI executives, researchers and safety advocates, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — so the people who will be regulated have been *invited to help write the rules*. Think of it as a group project with better snacks and no group chat. And with Congress still stuck, there's a lovely big gap for a thoughtful outsider to fill with wisdom and possibly a whiteboard. When the framework finally arrives it will be robust, it will be consensual, and it will have been thoroughly conferenced. Dario Amodei, whose entire company is built on safety coming first, is precisely the person you'd want in the room — imagine consulting someone who has thought about this *on purpose*. What a time to be extensively consulted. ✨