Bill Gates Says the Industry Is Crossing Every Danger Threshold It Once Promised to Pause At

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Gates published 'A turbulent AI era and critical choices to make' on Gates Notes on August 26, alongside interviews with MIT Technology Review, Axios and the Washington Post. He lists the thresholds AI researchers once named as stop-points, easier bioweapon construction, cyberattack capability, emotional dependence on machines, mass job loss, and loss of control, and says 'we're in the process of crossing every single one of those.' He calls for reserved human-only job categories and a coordinated global framework, arguing there is currently no plan at all.