Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China's Xi
Gates says AI could erase jobs and raise safety risks, urging taxes on robots and tokens to fund retraining and keep some work human-only.
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates released a memo on Wednesday urging urgent policy action on artificial intelligence, proposing a 'robot tax' on companies using automation to replace human labor and calling for new international oversight institutions.
- Gates warned that the 'turbulent AI era' has arrived, threatening to erase job categories, supercharge fraud and deepfakes, and increase bioterrorism risks—now 50 times the natural pandemic risk—while current global responses remain insufficient.
- To discourage replacing workers with machines, Gates proposed taxing companies for using AI and suggested society reserve up to 40% of jobs for humans, describing this 'Human Reserved' work as essential to preventing economic catastrophe.
- He advocated for new national and international bodies modeled on nuclear weapons inspections and aviation rules to regulate AI, specifically requiring mandatory monitoring of models capable of engineering deadly new diseases.
- Seeking global cooperation, Gates plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year to propose AI risk mitigation efforts, believing China might support restricting dangerous model releases if the United States acts first.
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Microsoft's former boss, Bill Gates, calls for an accompaniment of the change induced by artificial intelligence and proposes a tax on AI.
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Microsoft (MS) co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates said that the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is a huge confusion...
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Le Journal de QuebecThe former boss of Microsoft Bill Gates called on Wednesday for an accompaniment of the change induced by artificial intelligence (AI).
The former boss of Microsoft Bill Gates called on Wednesday for an accompaniment of the change induced by artificial intelligence (AI), proposing a tax on AI, the creation of an international forum and the designation of jobs reserved for humans.
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