Jeremy Corbyn wants to impose ROBOT TAX on firms who replace staff with technology
The Labour leader is expected to set out his plans to 'manage' robots and will warn that technology must stop being 'our master'
JEREMY Corbyn fears human workers are at risk of losing their jobs to machines – so he wants to impose a ROBOT TAX on companies who replace staff with technology.
The Labour leader is expected to set out his plans to “manage” robots and will warn that technology must stop being “our master” during his speech at the party’s conference today.
He’s reportedly hoping to use the cash raised to create a fund to retrain staff who have lost their jobs due to AI.
But Tories branded his plans as “mad” last night.
Mr Corbyn, according to the Telegraph, is preparing to tell delegates at Brighton: “We need urgently to face the challenge of automation; robotics that could make so much of contemporary work redundant.
“That is a threat in the hands of the greedy, but what an opportunity if it’s managed in the interests of society as a whole.
“If planned and managed properly, accelerated technological change can be the gateway for a new settlement between work and leisure, a springboard for expanded creativity and culture, making technology our servant and not our master at long last.”
But Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke told the paper: “We all want to see companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook pay a fair share of tax - but taxing innovation and new ideas is economics of the mad house – it’s increasingly clear Labour would hold Britain back, destroy jobs and cause a run on the pound.”
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