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Bill Gates Proposes ‘Robot Tax’ and ‘Human Reserved’ Jobs to Counter AI Job Displacement
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates waded deeper into AI policy on August 26, 2026, publishing a lengthy essay on his Gates Notes platform that endorses an AI slowdown while proposing two concrete interventions — a “robot tax” and the creation of “Human Reserved” job categories — to blunt the technology’s impact on the labor market. The […]
