Ellison dismisses predictions that AI will replace everyone as nonsensical, saying it will mainly make workers more productive.
I think that's kind of nonsensical,
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Ellison has said AI will enable personalised cancer vaccines produced within 48 hours.
Larry Ellison, the chief executive of AI giant Oracle, has said that the technology will enable the creation of personalised vaccines against cancer, produced in 48 hours.
Ellison argues governments should shift from taxing human labor to taxing value added by robots, funding a universal high income.
We need to change from taxing human labor to taxing value added," he said. "So when the robots add value, all that value that the robots add is taxed, and we could have universal high income.
Ellison envisions taxing robot-generated value to distribute AI-created wealth broadly, making everyone wealthy.
The robots are adding value. The government's taxing the value... We all become wealthy as a result.
Ellison says Oracle decided to use AI to make its applications, including the Healthcare Suite, far more capable.
We decided to use AI to make our applications much more capable.
Ellison predicts AI will let researchers eradicate all cancers within a decade, possibly within five years.
AI will enable researchers to eradicate all cancers within the coming decade — and possibly within the next five years.