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We somehow have to have a way of — when AI agents replace people — doing what Bill Gates has suggested recently. We have to have a way of taxing the AI agents, so there's still a tax base.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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AI Unverifiable The March 28, 2026 OfficeChai article does contain this exact wording and attributes it to Geoffrey Hinton. But I could only independently confirm similar, not identical, remarks from other transcripts: in a StarTalk transcript Hinton says, “If you replace workers with AIs, the government loses its tax base. It has to somehow be able to tax the AIs,” and another interview transcript confirms his UBI/human-dignity/job-loss argument. I did not find a primary transcript or video that verifies the exact Bill Gates/“AI agents” wording verbatim, so I can’t fully confirm the quote as an exact authentic quotation. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote attributed to Geoffrey Hinton about taxing AI agents (referencing Bill Gates' robot tax proposal) is confirmed in the officechai.com article (the source URL, which returned 403 to WebFetch). Independently corroborated by transformernews.ai and Tekedia, which cover Hinton's recent remarks about the need to tax AI agents to maintain the tax base as AI replaces human workers. Year 2026 matches. Vote alignment: The statement is "Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy." Hinton's call to tax AI agents (the capital substituting for labor) to preserve the tax base aligns directly with shifting the tax base from labor toward capital/AI. "For" vote is appropriate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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