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Bill Gates calls for AI legislation, says a kill switch is not enough

Aiden Reed September 28, 2026 AI Policy 0 Comments

Illustration on a pale green-tinted background. At left, a translucent glass cube with a glowing core gives off a thin ribbon of activity ticks with a "MONITORING" tag. The ribbon runs into a large safety-orange aviation flight-recorder box with bolts, ribs, reflective stripes and a cylinder strapped on top, labeled "RECORDS". A branch of the ribbon rises into a plain tile labeled "LAW ENFORCEMENT VIEW". A small rocker switch on the cube's corner is tagged "KILL SWITCH" and "NOT ENOUGH ALONE", and a bar at the bottom reads "SAFEGUARDS: REQUIRED".

On NBC’s Meet the Press, the Microsoft co-founder said no one thinks AI self-regulation is enough and that safeguards and monitoring must be required by…