Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates floated the idea of instituting a “robot tax” as the world increasingly turns to automation to perform low-skill jobs.

“If a human worker does $50,000 of work in a factory, that income is taxed,” Gates told Quartz in an interview published week. “If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.”

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