Robots, AI taking human jobs must pay payroll taxes: Bill Gates

Bill Gates proposed that companies replacing human workers with robots or AI should pay equivalent Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) taxes on automated labour. "Why are you so incentivising the trade-off against...human labour?" he said. "Is it that...if you’re not flesh, then let pensions go bankrupt?" he added. FICA is a mandatory federal payroll tax deducted from employee's paychecks.