Bill Gates Calls for ‘Human Reserved’ Jobs as AI Threatens to Wipe Out Work
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 AI tokens and robots in a blog post published Wednesday to slow human labor replacement and fund retraining programs.
- Unlike previous technological transitions spanning generations, Gates warns artificial intelligence will rapidly reshape industries like medicine and law within a decade, potentially eliminating many positions permanently.
- Drawing from his father's death from Alzheimer six years ago, Gates advocates for 'human reserved' jobs, imagining reserving 40% of positions for people in roles requiring irreplaceable human empathy.
- The International Federation of Robotics criticized the proposal, arguing it aims to "solve a problem that does not exist," while critics noted many deemed the 2017 proposal a "strange idea."
- South Korea remains the only country to implement a robot tax, while The European Parliament rejected similar legislation in 2017, prompting Gates to seek global policy discussions.
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Bill Gates Calls for ‘Human Reserved’ Jobs as AI Threatens to Wipe Out Work
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Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, calls for a framework for the transformations brought about by artificial intelligence, including a tax on this technology, the creation of an international supervisory body and the reservation of certain jobs to humans.This position marks a break in the tone for a ... Read more Like KultureGeek on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter Don't forget to download our free iAddict app for iPhone and iPad (link App S…
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