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Bill Gates Calls For Globalist Crackdown On AI
Bill Gates Calls For Globalist Crackdown On AI
https://modernity.news/2026/09/16/bill-gates-calls-for-globalist-crackdown-on-ai/,
Bill Gates has a new emergency. With the climate apocalypse no longer selling, the Microsoft co-founder is touring the press circuit warning that artificial intelligence is an "alien intelligence," that no government on earth is ready for it, and that the only fix is an international organization to police the technology.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/gates_4.jpg?itok=tXCZ2QDE
President Trump has already rejected the pause. The left, the globalist class, Beijing's spy chief, and now a Sundance-to-Netflix documentary are all at once selling the same story.
In a Reuters interview published Tuesday, Gates said no capital is prepared for what is coming. "I don't think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to be," he told the outlet. "Governments are way behind on this one."
Bill Gates Calls for an 'International Organization' to Regulate AI
"It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or understand the whole-of-society impact that comes out of AI ... The depth of understanding of AI ... is too low in every entity, including the government." https://t.co/y85BgPDDJ6
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2099904100133491192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He compared AI to a Hollywood invasion plot in which Washington and Beijing suddenly hold hands. "There's all sorts of movies where some aliens are coming, and magically the US and China and everybody comes together to solve the problem," Gates said. "AI is kind of like this alien intelligence. It's here, and we better do like it shows in those movies."
The New York Post framed it as a "terrifying warning." Forbes led with the line Gates attached to his foundation's Goalkeepers report: left to the market, "AI will be designed by and for the richest people in the world."
Bill Gates Warns AI Will Be Designed 'By And For The Richest' Without Regulationhttps://t.co/DXTP4Qjbn5 https://t.co/HKYEuyCQXb
— Forbes (@Forbes) https://x.com/Forbes/status/2099830622155870435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He wrote that AI could be "a great equalizer - or widen the gap," and that choices made in "the next 12 to 18 months" will decide whether the tools "benefit the people who already have the most or reach those who have the least." He added that the good outcome "won't happen by accident."
On The Times Tech Pod, Gates went further and called for a dedicated global apparatus. Industry, he said, should not be trusted to police itself. "It's not the role of the industry to self-regulate or understand the whole-of-society impact that comes out of AI," he argued. "The depth of understanding of AI ... is too low in every entity, including the government."
In a late-August essay, Gates wrote that "the transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history" and that "unfortunately, right now, we are not preparing for it."
He floated a new international organization built from pieces of nuclear inspections, aviation rules, and ozone treaties - a permanent cross-border watchdog for a technology American labs still lead. He has been pitching the same idea to Trump's team and says he wants a meeting with China's Xi Jinping later this year.
This guy just wants global authoritarianism
He tries it however he can
Climate, health, now AI
— The Individual (@Tweet137188103) https://x.com/Tweet137188103/status/2099908189416272196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
While Gates talks crisis, his foundation is writing checks to expand the thing. On Tuesday the Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion over two years to spread AI in education, health, and agriculture - 40 percent tutoring and classroom tools, 40 percent diagnostics and drug discovery, the rest farming advice and the data layer that makes models work in languages other than English. The money sits inside a previously announced $9 billion-a-year spend.
David Sirota caught the split in one line.
Bill Gates is warning about the dangers of AI while spending $1 billion to promote the expansion of AI https://t.co/sjgvEalB4r
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) https://x.com/davidsirota/status/2099848689422565592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
That is the move. Sound the alarm. Demand a global referee. Keep a foundation-sized stake in the rollout.
This is not Gates' first end-of-the-world product. For years he sold net-zero as civilization's last exit - fewer cows, fake meat, the whole ritual. Then the data-center boom needed power, lots of it, and last October he allowed that climate change "won't lead to humanity's demise." Trump treated the climbdown as a concession speech. "I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax," he wrote. "Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!"
The scare apparatus was not retired. Once everyone realised the planet was not going to cook on schedule, the same network needed a replacement threat big enough to justify treaties, inspectors, and "international coordination."
AI arrived on cue: jobs, cyberattacks, companions, bioterror, "loss of control." All of it real enough to discuss. None of it a license to park American development under a UN-flavored commission while Beijing keeps shipping cheap open-weight models.
The entertainment wing has added its own contribution in the same news cycle. Netflix has just put up The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, the Sundance premiere from Oscar-winner Daniel Roher (Navalny) and Charlie Tyrell. The film sits Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Reid Hoffman, Yuval Noah Harari, and the usual "humane tech" chorus in front of a camera and walks the audience through impending AI dread dressed up as a father-to-be's anxiety.
One of the producers said the hope was that it would work "kind of like 'An Inconvenient Truth' or 'The Social Dilemma' for AI." That is the tell. Same template. New monster.
Want to understand how propaganda works?
Tomorrow, Netflix premieres The AI Doc starring Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and also Reid Hoffman. ?
The topic? Impending doom about AI.
The movie was launched by Sundance Festival in February. Yup. The Sundance Documentary Program... https://t.co/0BEGcjsLsJ
— Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) https://x.com/ErikaCA47/status/2099693481975259502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The film premiered at Sundance in January, played theaters in March, and dropped on Netflix this week - the same week Gates, Obama's orbit, Bernie Sanders, and the lab CEOs were all pushing slowdown and supervision.
The Sundance Documentary Film Program was built with founding money from George Soros's Open Society Foundations. Users circulating the credits call the Netflix drop a globalist op.
When the policy class needs the public frightened into a pause, Hollywood still knows how to dim the lights.
Mass media has just launched one of the largest PSYOPs since COVID-19.
This time, it's the World Economic Forum's long-awaited "CYBER PANDEMIC." https://t.co/juLBRN0EfS https://t.co/KRW39D0ZxL
— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2099934855274324287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Now I'm fully convinced this is a psyop https://t.co/3wJ63q73tB
— Sola Awodiya (@Solaawodiya) https://x.com/Solaawodiya/status/2099612591106707530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Over the weekend, Anthropic's Dario Amodei called on rivals to "pace the frontier." Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed the letter. Former researcher Jacob Coxon quit and said AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade."
? JUST IN: Elon Musk just said if Anthropic and OpenAI people are warning that the models are "very dangerous," we should believe them. Then he mocked the pitch. A 10 PERCENT chance of annihilating humanity... and how much of the IPO would you like?
Fox's guest nailed the real... https://t.co/EWLbE1Rte3
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2099911408561320085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
President Trump waved the pile-on off. The United States is "leading China in AI," he said. "Whoever wins AI, wins." A lot of "very negative forces," he added, are "bringing up things that won't happen." Guardrails, fine. A pause, no. Asked about existential risk leaving Dallas, he shot back: "No, I don't have any."
Jesse Watters noted that the same CEOs are "begging for government regulations," while claiming the tech is more powerful than a nuclear weapon and could wipe everyone out in three years. Then the obvious question: if they are that terrified of their own product, why do they need politicians to slow it down for them? "Something smells fishy with these IPOs."
? WOW: AI CEO's are BEGGING for government regulations! ??
They claim AI is more powerful than a nuclear weapon and could kill us all in 3 years.
But why do they need politicians to slow it down? Something smells fishy with these IPOs! ?? https://t.co/UVsEsZOrUN
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/2099625672016613420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
David Sacks named the shakedown. OpenAI and Anthropic are the frontier. If their unreleased models are too hot, they can simply not ship them. Demanding antitrust waivers, embedded evaluators, and a regulatory architecture as the price of restraint, he wrote, "will look like blackmail of the public and the political system."
Regulation written by the incumbents does not save humanity. It freezes the ladder so the next lab never climbs it - right as those same firms eye public markets.
Barack Obama took the other door. At a Manhattan fundraiser he told Hakeem Jeffries that if Democrats win the House they should make AI a governing project. "Once you are speaker, I would strongly urge that the Democrats put together a framework for a very public conversation."
Then: "This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don't get on top of it, I think can be dangerous." Jeffries saluted on command. "President Obama is correct that decisive action must be taken on artificial intelligence... Republicans have abdicated their responsibility... We will not repeat their error."
Bernie Sanders has been running the same play for weeks: pause advanced development, permanently ban superintelligence, and get Trump and Xi to sign a treaty. On Tuesday, at a Washington "Pro-Human Assembly," he said a runaway system "will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity's problem," and he again demanded a comprehensive pause-and-ban deal at the coming Trump - Xi meeting.
That is the globalist package in one stack: slow the American frontier, internationalize the rules, and call it safety.
Then China's ministry of state security walked into the same conversation. Chen Yixin, Beijing's top spy chief, used the state-run magazine China Cyberspace to warn that AI is "directly threatening our political security, institutional security, and ideological security."
He called for tighter Party control and stricter government oversight. Hostile forces, he wrote, "abuse generative artificial intelligence technologies... to fabricate political rumors, spread harmful information, and incite confrontational sentiments at low cost and in large quantities."
?? BREAKING - Here we go. Now China's top spy chief is warning about the dangers of AI and calling for greater government oversight...
All while China is using Anthropic's AI, Claude, to develop weapons and spy on America. It's like China was behind this ALL ALONG...
He is... https://t.co/Y6Ti1nf3Fd
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2099915179450405113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He named American models - Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber - as a "disruptive upgrade" in cyber capability, and billed AI as "a new arena for strategic rivalry among major powers."
He is not asking America to pause so the world can be safe. He is asking the Party to lock down speech, data, and "ideological security" at home while Western executives and Democratic politicians talk themselves into a slowdown.
Days earlier, Anthropic's own threat report said China-linked actors had already used Claude for weapons software and intelligence work the company then banned: an electronic-warfare and air-defense suite whose simulation was expanded to twelve targets in Taiwan; research into foreign high-power microwave weapons; and domestic surveillance pipelines that collapse "many teams of analysts" into a single office producing thousands of investigations a month.
Anthropic publishes an alarming new report saying it blocked several possible attempts to use its AI models to develop biological weapons
"Anthropic says a lab outside the US gained access to Claude from an unsupported region, using the model to help research a highly pathogenic... https://t.co/0ngckQbOB2
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2099699121271791886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Chinese labs, Anthropic said, also tried to strip Claude's capabilities to feed their own models. Beijing's foreign ministry shrugged that it was "not aware" of the report and opposed "smears."
So the sequence is simple. China runs Western models for weapons and control. China's spy chief then lectures the world about AI danger and Party oversight. Gates wants a global body. Sanders wants a Trump - Xi treaty. Obama wants Democrats to "get on top of it." Netflix wants you crying on the couch. The CEOs want a rulebook that just happens to protect their lead.
America does not need Bill Gates' alien-movie summit, Chen Yixin's definition of safety, or another Inconvenient Truth with better animation. It needs the thing Trump already said out loud. Win the race.
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