Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Jobs Humans Can't Be Fired From
In brief Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes calling the AI transition "one of the most turbulent times in human history" He's proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation already has over hiring. Gates puts a ceiling of roughly 40% of jobs under the most aggressive version of that carve-out.
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- Fact 1: In brief Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes calling the AI transition "one of the most turbulent times in human history" He's proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation already has over hiring.
- Fact 2: Gates puts a ceiling of roughly 40% of jobs under the most aggressive version of that carve-out.
- Fact 3: Gates first floated a robot tax in 2017 and got laughed off by economists who called it a tax on productivity dressed up as a tax on progress.
- Fact 4: Gates wrote before that his father got round-the-clock care before dying of Alzheimer's in 2020, and that "something in the care they gave my dad was irreplaceably human." Education and healthcare sit in a fuzzier middle tier, where he expects the humans to stay in the room while leaning on AI to cover more ground.
In brief Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes calling the AI transition "one of the most turbulent times in human history" He's proposing a tax on AI tokens and robots to offset the payroll-tax advantage automation already has over hiring. Gates puts a ceiling of roughly 40% of jobs under the most aggressive version of that carve-out.
Buy a worker, pay payroll tax. Buy a robot, write it off. Bill Gates thinks the math employers are faced with is a problem.
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Original source: Decrypt
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