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Bill. Gates pointed out that AI and robots will continue to replace human jobs, and that governments need to find new sources of revenue and tax the rich and the use of AI, while warning about the risks of AI and the importance of international cooperation.
Microsoft Founding Bill. In an exclusive interview with the British “Observer”, Gates pointed out that people will continue to be unemployed because of artificial intelligence (AI), and the application of robots will also significantly disrupt the labor market. When the government needs to find new financial resources to cope, billionaires should pay more taxes.
The Observer reported on that bill. Gates (Bill Gates ) said that people will continue to lose their jobs due to AI because companies’ “incentive mechanisms are broken: hiring robots, firing humans, and never looking back.”
He predicts that the labor market will be significantly disrupted, as almost all job skills can be replaced by AI, including “innovation skills, white-collar work skills, and then with the development of humanoid robots, human physical labor skills.”
Governments must find new sources of revenue to meet the needs of the unemployed as well as to fund future education and retraining. Gates hopes to tax the use of AI, perhaps in the form of a “token tax”.
Gates also said that billionaires should pay more taxes. He said he has paid about $14 billion in taxes in his lifetime, but he is willing to pay about $40 billion.
Although Gates emphasized the positive benefits of AI, such as boosting drug research and development, he also warned that technological advances would bring “major tests” to the quality of government governance, especially as developed countries face many challenges and geopolitical tensions.
The Microsoft founder pointed out that bioterrorism and cyberattacks are the most urgent threats currently, but by the end of 2020, AI operations may be beyond human control.
He said that within 3 to 4 years, everyone should take a very serious attitude to the issue of alignment control, that is, the risk that AI may take actions inconsistent with human interests.
Gates also warned in the interview that superpowers must cooperate to avoid AI-related risks that are causing deep concern among top AI labs.
He said: “On some issues, the United States and China should treat AI as a challenge to all mankind, rather than zero-sum competition between countries.”
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He believes that AI will continue to render humans unemployed, as companies tend to replace employees with robots, the labor market will be substantially distorted, and both white-collar and manual jobs may be affected.
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He advocated that the government should find new sources of revenue, including taxing the use of AI or implementing it as a “word tax” to support the care, education and retraining needs of the unemployed.
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He pointed out that bioterrorism and cyberattacks are still urgent, and warned that AI could be beyond human control by the end of 2020, so countries should pay special attention to alignment issues and international cooperation.
