Bill Gates may favour a tax on robots that devour human jobs. But isn’t Microsoft too arguably a robot by that definition? | Flickr / Stephen Chin Luddites had humanity’s best interests at heart. So does Bill Gates. And with his statement urging taxation of robots to slow down pace of automation, he has proven himself to be a modern-day Luddite. His ideas on robots will, hopefully for the sake of humanity, meet with the same fate that Luddites’ did.
There is little doubt that automation will destroy jobs in sectors ranging from transport to finance . This is a […]
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