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Betsey Stevenson

Labor economist and professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan; former member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

We could lower taxation on human workers and raise taxation on capital investments like AI. A shift away from taxing people to taxing capital will recognize the important role that humans play in generating the data on which artificial intelligence relies.

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Betsey Stevenson, quoted in “Stevenson: Society must address inevitable shift to AI-driven labor through comprehensive policy reform,” University of Michigan Ford School, January 30, 2026.

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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