Bill Gates Says He Will Not 'Socialize' With A.I.

Bill Gates I Don't Need to Hang Out with A.I. ... I Have Real Friends Published September 27, 2026 12:10 PM PDT Bill Gates is opening about how he refuses to use A.I. for his "personal relationships" ... and says the technology treats him like a serious person. Bill Gates says he doesn't socialize with AI, and that it knows he's a very serious person. pic.twitter.com/nCFPEiIrC9 @CatchUpFeed During Sunday's episode of "Meet the Press" ... he told host Kristen Welker that he's not chatting with an A.I. bot the same way he would a friend. He admitted ... "I’m not like, 'Hey, do you like me? Hey, am I a nice guy?' So I just never went down that path, because I’m lucky in terms of my family, friends and everything." He added ... "I don’t socialize with the A.I. It knows I’m a very serious person." Bill's comments -- which include a plea for lawmakers to regulate the new technology -- come amid a flurry of concern about the future of A.I. in the past month. 🚨 Bill Gates predicts that AI could “drive events that cause a billion deaths” pic.twitter.com/o1k6KqAkS4 @TheChiefNerd Worth noting, Bill weighed in on the A.I. vs. humanity debate ... and while he didn't give a definitive answer, he did say that the A.I. is "powerful enough" to cause "a billion deaths." This conversation comes weeks after A.I. whistleblower Jacob Coxon came forward warning there was a 10% chance of an A.I.-caused apocalypse ... shortly before OpenAI revealed several alarming instances of the technology's hacking capabilities -- and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to ban of all artificial superintelligence. Even Donald Trump -- who calls the worries surrounding A.I. a "hoax" -- has said he wants to create an A.I. Force. Related articles Donald Trump Bill Gates Jacob Coxon Bernie Sanders Artificial Intelligence Politics Controversial S#!T News