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

Why it matters

Gates argues AI has already crossed dangerous thresholds in bioweapon design, cyberattacks and job displacement, and that public debate lags far behind the tech industry's own awareness of the risks. He is pushing for external monitoring of models that can design novel molecules and a token tax on AI revenue to fund safety nets, explicitly rejecting industry self-regulation as sufficient. Useful context for anyone tracking how AI governance debates are shifting from hypothetical to operational.