🗣 Bill Gates says it may take an AI catastrophe before the world acts

A big cyberattack could be what finally convinces people, he told CBS Evening News in September, during the week of the UN General Assembly:

"One thing that's clear is if you have a big cyber attack that caused a lot of problems, then people will say, OK, they were right. The people who are talking about that were right. So it may be that we have to suffer a few of the negatives before we'll respond as fully as we should."

In an August essay, Gates called the coming years "one of the most turbulent times in human history.