In an interview with MIT Technology Review, Bill Gates says artificial intelligence has already crossed critical safety thresholds in areas including bioweapon capability, cybersecurity vulnerability and job displacement, even as society remains largely indifferent to the risks. He proposes measures such as reserving certain jobs for humans and taxing AI-generated tokens to help fund social safety nets during an economically turbulent transition. Gates argues industry self-regulation cannot be trusted and calls for closer government-industry cooperation, including potential agreements with China, to monitor AI models capable of designing novel molecules.
