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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The skills gap is widening between people and AI.
Artificial Intelligence is apparently ready to get to work. Over the next three years, as many as 120 million workers from the world's 12 largest economies may need to be retrained because of advances in artificial intelligence and intelligent automation, according to a study released Friday by IBM's Institute for Business Value. However, less than half of CEOs surveyed by IBM said they had the resources needed to close the skills gap brought on by these new technologies.
"Organizations are facing mounting concerns over the widening skills gap and tightened labor markets with the potential to impact their futures as well as worldwide economies," said Amy Wright, a managing partner for IBM Talent & Transformation, in a release. "Yet while executives recognize severity of the problem, half of those surveyed admit that they do not have any skills development strategies in place to address their largest gaps."
[...] IBM says companies should be able to close the skills gap needed for the "era of AI," but that this won't necessarily be easy. The company said global research shows the time it takes to close a skills gap through employee training has grown by more than 10 times in the last four years. That's due in part to new skills requirements rapidly emerging, while other skills become obsolete.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ron on Tuesday September 10 2019, @02:31AM (2 children)
The problem with taxing AI or robots is the definition of what an AI or robot is.
Is an answering machine that can differentiate incoming calls an AI?
What about an automatic transmission?
Here's a thought-- To do work requires energy, including "intellectual" work. That's why computers get hot. Don't tax the bot, tax their ability to do work by taxing the energy they use. We already do it with cars (the gas tax) and that's going to be a problem with electric cars that don't use gas but still use the roads and bridges that the gas tax helps pay for. SO, tax the energy. Give people a tax-free minimum allowance but tax anything over that limit. Otherwise they'll set up factories in their garages.
How does that sound?
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday September 10 2019, @04:41AM
Something the "taxes are bad" crowd will demonize, probably successfully.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday September 13 2019, @01:09AM
No, it is not good. The losses are currently way bigger and a smart AI will get away.
A better approach is to tax productivity. We know GDP per person (remove managers, only workers count) for the country and whoever has better results pays more taxes. Not the whole gain is confiscated, but part of it. So a company would either pay taxes for unreasonable efficiency or pay their workers more to reduce efficiency - make it up to them.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.