Bill Gates wants to tax robots that take human jobs

Bill Gates proposes a tax to compensate humans for robots taking their jobs. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that robots and automated machines that cause a loss in human jobs should be taxed. Gates, the world's richest man and also a strong proponent of AI and automation, believes a robot tax could be used to finance jobs taking care of the elderly or teaching kids in schools. His suggestion is quite similar to a proposal put to the European Parliament to tax robot owners so that workers who lose their jobs to automation can be retrained. That proposal to regulate the rise of robots was rejected by the European Parliament last week by 396 votes to 123.