BIZ HEADS SAY

“If a human worker does $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you'd think we'd tax the robot at a similar level” BILL GATES, Microsoft co-founder

“The automation of factories has decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining” STEPHEN HAWKING, Theoretical physicist