Bill Gates wants to tax the AI machines to level the playing field for humans
Bill Gates just asked governments to tax the thing that’s about to replace millions of workers — and it’s the third time in a decade the tech world has heard some version of this pitch, minus the memorable turn of phrase this time around. In an essay published August 26 on Gates Notes, “The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Now Are Critical,” the Microsoft co-founder resurrects the robot tax he floated in 2017 and got laughed out of the room for, gives it a new, more enforceable unit of measurement — the AI “token” — and folds it into a broader case that the world is sleepwalking into a decade of disruption it has no plan for.
The tax proposal is getting the headlines. It’s also the part of the essay with the longest paper trail of failure.
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