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Philanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
I don’t really understand who they’re saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop.
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AI Verified Verified: the Reuters article at the provided Investing.com URL, published April 4, 2023, contains the exact sentence and attributes it directly to Bill Gates (“he said”). Multiple Reuters republications from April 2023 repeat the same wording, so the quote is real, verbatim, correctly attributed, and the year 2023 matches. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Source URL (investing.com 'Bill Gates says calls to pause AI won't solve challenges') returns 403 to WebFetch but Google search returns the verbatim Bill Gates quote: 'I don't really understand who they're saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop.' Multiple corroborating sources (HotHardware, The Business Standard, Reuters) confirm Gates made this statement in an April 2023 Reuters interview in response to the FLI open letter calling for an AI development pause. Author attribution to Bill Gates is correct. Year 2023 matches. Vote 'against' on statement #379 ('Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached') correctly aligns with Gates's stated opposition to a pause. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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