Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules that left the tax out.
Bill Gates says the people building AI are worried in private and quiet in public. “I know they’re all worried. Or all of them that I know, which is basically everybody but Elon,” he told GeekWire.
The reason he is talking is a memo he published this week. It argues the industry is crossing the safety lines it set for itself, and that nobody is preparing for what follows.
TNW covered the proposals when it landed. A tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans, and new institutions to manage the transition.
The interview adds the part he did not put in writing. “Even lack of control that I thought would be many years from now, we’re seeing lack of control,” he said.
