HighlightsGates says the AI industry has passed all five of the danger markers it once described as reasons to pause, covering bioweapons, cyberattacks, emotional dependence on machines, mass job losses and loss of human control.His three proposals: national and international bodies to coordinate AI policy, a "Human Reserved" class of jobs closed to machines, and a tax on AI tokens and robots to fund retraining.Stanford payroll research puts employment for 22 to 25 year olds in the most AI-exposed occupations about 19 per cent below where it would otherwise sit, while Yale researchers still find an AI footprint absent from economy-wide data.For most of five decades Bill Gates has argued that faster technology leaves the world better off. This week he broke from that position with an essay of some 6,000 words warning that the shift into the AI era will rank among the most turbulent stretches in human history. The sharpest passage concerns the industry more than the technology. People building these systems spent years naming the moments that would force a pause, and every one of those markers has gone past while the work carried on at full speed.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.