Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

Bill Gates warns that AI has already exceeded safety thresholds in bio-, cyber-, psychosocial, and job-market domains, citing a bioterrorism risk he deems fifty times more likely than a natural pandemic. He proposes preserving certain human-only jobs, imposing a robot-use tax to fund AI-related impacts, and highlights AI’s potential to improve agriculture, healthcare, and education while acknowledging imminent turbulence.