Robots won't just take our jobs – they'll make the rich even richer

This seems like a fairly obvious conclusion. With few exceptions, the highest paid jobs require the highest cognitive abilities. As robots replace cognitively demanding jobs, then instead of splitting the "cost" of labor with the laborer, the owner of the equipment will simply pay for the cost of a robot and keep the rest.

This is the more immediate threat of AI. And there's no obvious way to avoid it because any responsible business owner will always replace a more expensive, lower performing unit with a cheaper, higher performing one.

There may be plenty of jobs but they will increasingly bifurcate between lots of low paying ones and fewer high paying ones.

not too surprising, this is the outcome of all forms of automation technology.

The leftist editors of this site are fail to see the big picture. Robots will replace human workers because of rising healthcare costs and an aging population in developed coutries (we are already seing this in Japan). A tax on robots would impact the economy of the country that does this, for the robotic workforce will move elsewhere. We should really replace government workers with robots because gov't expenditures in many countries account for more than 30% of the GDP.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. -- Milton Friedman

But wouldn't there be jobs to make, fix, manage robots ?