THE CLAIM. Bill Gates published an essay warning AI will be very bad for the job market and proposing a robot tax and legally protected 'Human Reserved' jobs. Jensen Huang publicly rejected that view three days later, calling AI a net job creator at a scale never seen before. THE CHECK: both statements are confirmed, on the record, from named billionaires. Neither one comes with a quantified figure, a percentage, or a date. TechCrunch's and Fox Business's full coverage of both men confirms the absence of hard numbers on either side. THE TWIST: Gates floated a nearly identical robot tax in 2017, and economists dismissed it then as a tax on productivity dressed up as a tax on progress, this is not a new argument updated with new evidence, it is the same argument re-run nine years later with the word AI swapped in.