Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots to Protect Human Jobs
Gates said the levy could slow job losses and fund retraining as AI and automation spread across industries over the next decade.
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, proposed taxing artificial intelligence tokens and robots in a blog post published Wednesday to slow human labor replacement and fund retraining programs.
- Unlike previous technological transitions, artificial intelligence will rapidly impact industries like medicine and law over the coming decade, Gates warns, with many positions disappearing permanently without deliberate policy.
- Drawing from his father's care before dying of Alzheimer six years ago, Gates advocates for 'human reserved' jobs, envisioning 40% of positions reserved for people in roles requiring inherent human empathy.
- The International Federation of Robotics criticized the proposal, arguing the tax aims to "solve a problem that does not exist" while hampering productivity and competitiveness.
- South Korea remains the only country to implement a robot tax, while The European Parliament rejected similar legislation in 2017, as Gates seeks world leader discussions on automation frameworks.
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Bill Gates wants to tax robots to protect human jobs
Bill Gates is of the belief that companies that put a robot on the payroll might have to pay for it like you would a person. The Microsoft co-founder is calling for taxes on AI and robots as part of a broader plan to stop automation from moving faster than society can handle. No, this […] Read the original article here: Bill Gates wants to tax robots to protect human jobs
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