In a memo released on Wednesday, Bill Gates stated that artificial intelligence will bring unprecedented global challenges and predicted significant disruption in fields such as medicine, law, middle management, and manufacturing within the next decade. He proposed designating specific professions like caregiving as "human-exclusive" jobs and implementing a "token tax" to increase the cost for companies to replace employees with AI, while also funding displaced workers. Gates emphasized that technological capability should not automatically determine the degree of societal automation, and called for the development of domestic and international AI frameworks through public democratic processes.