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In a nearly 6,000-word essay published August 26 on gatesnotes.com, Bill Gates proposed taxing AI tokens and robots to close the gap between what it costs to employ a person and what it costs to buy a machine, and floated 'Human Reserved' occupations that society would deliberately leave to people. In an accompanying Axios interview he said that even in a very extreme version, the most work he could imagine protecting this way was about 40% of jobs. A leading AI researcher publicly agreed with his diagnosis and rejected his central tax.