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

Bill Gates warns in a new MIT Technology Review interview that frontier AI models have already crossed danger thresholds in bio-capabilities, cyber-capabilities, psychosocial impact, job destruction, and loss of control. He calls bioterrorism risk roughly 50 times scarier than a natural pandemic. Gates is stunned by the lack of public discussion outside the industry. He proposes human-reserved jobs and taxes on robots and tokens. He sees eventual abundance, but only after major turbulence.

Why it matters: Gates personally sounds the alarm on five crossed thresholds with a concrete '50x worse than a pandemic' figure — HKR all hit. Score capped below 85 because it's commentary, not a product or paper release with verifiable new data.