Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the world has been left exposed to the dangers of AI-enabled bioweapons due to the Trump administration's failure to act on the issue. Speaking Wednesday at the Financial Times' Future of AI Summit in London, Gates warned that malicious actors using AI tools could create bioweapons or exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities across society, and that an AI-related biosecurity incident could cause far greater damage than COVID-19, which is estimated to have killed about 15 million people. Gates said the Trump administration has obstructed international efforts to regulate and monitor AI, and that self-regulation will not work once there are multiple AI companies, with government being the only solution. He praised Anthropic for disclosing AI risks in its initial public offering prospectus last week, in which the company said highly advanced AI could produce catastrophic outcomes if misused or if it escapes human control.