Bill Gates says AI will be very bad for the job market and wants a robot tax to slow it down.
Jensen Huang says he loves Bill, but does not see what Bill sees. Neither man shows a single number.
Bill Gates published an essay warning AI will be very bad for the job market and proposing a robot tax and legally protected 'Human Reserved' jobs. Jensen Huang publicly rejected that view three days later, calling AI a net job creator at a scale never seen before.
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both statements are confirmed, on the record, from named billionaires. Neither one comes with a quantified figure, a percentage, or a date. TechCrunch's and Fox Business's full coverage of both men confirms the absence of hard numbers on either side.
The twist
Gates floated a nearly identical robot tax in 2017, and economists dismissed it then as a tax on productivity dressed up as a tax on progress, this is not a new argument updated with new evidence, it is the same argument re-run nine years later with the word AI swapped in.
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Receipts
- Supports techcrunch.com:
The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines
- Context thenextweb.com:
He first proposed taxing robots in February 2017, when the argument was about factory automation rather than models, and the reasoning was the same
- Refutes finance.yahoo.com:
I love the heck out of Bill, Huang told Fox Business this week
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