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	Podcast:		Business Daily
	Episode:		Is it time to tax robots?
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:17:28
	Publish Date:		2019-06-04 02:33:00
	Description:		With ever more jobs at risk of automation, should the automatons be taxed the same as humans? Ed Butler speaks to Dr Carl Frey of the Oxford Martin School, who co-authored a report five years ago claiming that almost half of US jobs could made redundant by emerging technology in the next 30 years. He says that if the history of the Industrial Revolution is any guide, then millions of workers could find their careers devastated now, while the ultimate benefits of technology may only felt decades in the future. It is perhaps then not surprising that many politicians, academics and businessmen - including Microsoft founder Bill Gates - now advocate a tax on automation to level the playing field with humans. We pit an advocate of such a tax - Ryan Abbott of the University of Surrey - against critic Janet Bastiman, chief scientist at StoryStream, which provides AI services to the automotive sector. (Picture: Robot call centre; Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto/Getty Images)
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