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Bill Gates publishes a long essay calling for urgent AI safety oversight and new labor-focused policies, including proposed taxes on robots/AI tokens and “Human Reserved” job categories

Policy change ● Confirmed 90% confidence first seen

Bill Gates published an essay warning that AI has already crossed safety and societal thresholds and that leaders are not preparing for its risks, including bioterrorism concerns and major labor disruption. He lays out policy proposals aimed at mitigation, such as monitoring frontier models, a “robot tax” and taxes on AI tokens, and creating “Human Reserved” job categories where AI is barred, alongside retraining and safety-net funding ideas.

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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what? MIT Technology Review independent Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet The Verge independent Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI TechCrunch independent Bill Gates wants to tax robots to deter businesses from replacing humans with machines Fortune independent Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity SiliconANGLE independent

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