Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to enable ‘a billion deaths’

Gates' intervention matters less as a technical claim than as a signal: the AI-safety argument is now being made by figures with mainstream credibility, not just researchers, which shifts the Overton window on regulation. The framing around bioweapons and malicious actors points toward where policy attention is likely to concentrate, rather than the near-term commercial and market questions crypto and RWA participants tend to track. Whether this remains a rhetorical warning or converts into concrete governance proposals is the open question.