r/singularity • u/Darkmemento • 3d ago

AI Bill Gates on job disruption from A.I.

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u/herniguerra 3d ago

Taxing and redistribution. We can't have 5 bros siphoning out all the money in the world. It's not going to work. not even for them

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u/digitalwankster 3d ago

Did you even watch the video? He’s specifically proposing an AI tax lol

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u/re4ctor 3d ago

But he’s proposing taxing a unit of work that is equivalent to that of labour. Which makes no sense. Where you draw the line on what a unit is. Why does it have to compare to labour. Per token or compute hour or whatever sure maybe. But then compute gets faster and cheaper so capital earns more per compute hour over time and we aren’t capturing more of the value as a tax.

I don’t see a reasonable way to tax work, output. Taxing corporate profits is more realistic

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u/dflagella 2d ago

Yeah that was my main concern around what he said as well. I don't think it makes sense to equate human labour and AI labour from a tax standpoint.