{"id":85781,"date":"2026-08-26T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85781"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:33:30","slug":"gates-in-major-a-i-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/gates-in-major-a-i-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates In Major A.I. Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/08\/26\/multimedia\/26biz-gates-ai-01-jgcq\/26biz-gates-ai-01-jgcq-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"A black-and-white portrait of Bill Gates.\" width=\"273\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is loudly warning that artificial intelligence poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that urgently addressing the risks should be \u201cthe world\u2019s top priority.\u201d\u00a0In an hourlong interview with The New York Times last week, Mr. Gates said the tech industry was knowingly downplaying those threats because there was too much money on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">\u201cIn private, people who understand how good this stuff is, and how much better it\u2019s getting, they\u2019re very worried,\u201d he said. But few tech executives, Mr. Gates said, are willing to publicly admit that. \u201cThey\u2019re now saying to each other: \u2018Hey, man, don\u2019t say that. It\u2019s bad for us \u2014 the next trillion dollars we\u2019re trying to raise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is loudly warning that artificial intelligence poses a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85782,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85781\/revisions\/85782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}