Adrian Turner: It is time for a serious national conversation about automation … Australia does not need a robot tax – but it should take automation and the erosion of traditional jobs a whole lot more seriously.
CSIRO’s Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner has weighed into the discussion about whether companies replacing human workers with robots should be forced to pay a tax for the privilege, arguing that it is neither sensible nor feasible.
It’s a position at odds with that of Microsoft founder and technology advisor Bill Gates, who in a recent interview with the online site Quartz, said that […]
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