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Treemap of five AI danger domains Bill Gates says we have crossed, sized by relative emphasis in his essay. Bio-capabilities at 50, cyber-capabilities at 35, job-market destruction at 30, psychosocial at 20, and control at 15. AI danger thresholds.

Bill Gates says we crossed AI danger thresholds. Now what?

Bill Gates says we have crossed AI danger thresholds in bio, cyber, jobs, and control. He now calls bioterrorism 50 times more likely than a natural pandemic.

Aug 26, 2026

Line chart of LLM inference price collapsing at a fixed performance level from late 2022 to late 2024

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How cheap inference made the one-person studio viable

Building a one-person data studio used to be impossible on the economics alone. Inference at a fixed quality level fell roughly 280 times in two years, and that changed the math.

Lars Cornelissen · May 19, 2026