How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it

This article was published on August 30, 2026 He told GeekWire that AI leaders are privately worried and that a loss of control he expected years away is already visible, while the tax at the centre of his memo lost a vote in Brussels the same month he first suggested it Visit of Bill Gates to the European Commission Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot tax in February 2017, the same month the European Parliament adopted robotics rules that left the tax out. Bill Gates says the people building AI are worried in private and quiet in public. “I know they’re all worried. Or all of them that I know, which is basically everybody but Elon,” he told GeekWire. The reason he is talking is a memo he published this week. It argues the industry is crossing the safety lines it set for itself, and that nobody is preparing for what follows. TNW covered the proposals when it landed. A tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans, and new institutions to manage the transition. The