Bill Gates: AI will cause the worst injustice in history
microsoft cofounder bill gates released a 6,000-word essay warning ai will cause unprecedented injustice and permanent unemployment, calling for robot taxes.
bill gates shifted his stance from ai optimist to pessimist in a new 6,000-word essay, warning the ai transition will be more turbulent than humanity realizes and that current models are merely fixing early performance issues. he predicts widespread permanent unemployment and social upheaval, proposing specific policy measures like taxing ai robots to slow adoption and creating 'human reserved' job domains. gates criticized existing global institutions as inadequate for the cross-sectional challenges of ai, urging new international bodies to manage the technology before public trust erodes.