In an interview broadcast Sunday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that AI requires statutory oversight that goes beyond self-regulation-particularly calling on Congress to pass federal legislation requiring protective barriers.

Gates said in a taped interview on NBC’s, “ You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like.”

A sudden wave of support for federal intervention popped up after OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went........

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