On September 30th, after a meeting with AI industry leaders at the White House, Trump addressed Bill Gates' assertion that "artificial intelligence could potentially result in 1 billion deaths." Trump suggested that Gates had shifted his position, showing a lack of concern for Gates' prior statements and asserting that Gates no longer harbored such views before the meeting. Earlier, Bill Gates had consistently cautioned that AI could set off catastrophic events of immense scale and had advocated for legislative oversight.
