Capability can cross a threshold. Authority and responsibility still need an owner.
Gates’s “Human Reserved” idea asks what society may choose to keep human. Inside a company, the related question is who may decide - and who answers when the decision causes harm.
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A new name for an old question.
The distinction between capability and authority is this issue’s application of Gates’s proposal, not a framework he explicitly advances.
What gets made What gets weighed Who gets practice Who owns the result A process produces more than its visible output. Map each part before changing who does it.
The path above is a conceptual checklist, not a measured maturity scale.
SOURCE: BILL GATES, “THE CHOICES WE MAKE ABOUT AI NOW ARE CRITICAL” (AUG. 26, 2026); AXIOS INTERVIEW (AUG. 26, 2026). THE CHECKLIST IS
