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Godfather of Deep Learning
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. AI Verified source (2026)
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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 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 · 14d ago
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