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So Bill Gates wants to tax robots... well, how about SOFTWARE? May fit easily into certain definitions of ROBOT. Especially if we realize it is the software what makes robot (in that line of argumentation) a "job stealing evil" (100% retroactive tax on evil profits from selling software would probably shut Billy's mouth).
Now how about AI? Going to "steal" virtually ALL JOBS... friendly or not.
And let's go one step further: who is the culprit? The devil who had an IDEA!
The one who invented the robot, its application in the production, programmer who wrote the software, designed neural nets, etc.
So, let's tax ideas and thinking as such... all orwellian/huxleyian fantasies fade short in the Brave New Singularity.
Can we please bring back downvoting?