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Economist and coauthor of the 2026 study “Workers’ Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI.”
Our results show that taxing AI becomes optimal when cognitive workers start to consider switching to manual jobs. Given the rapid progress in AI capabilities and cognitive automation, this condition could soon be fulfilled.
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Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner, and Maciej Szkróbka, “Workers’ Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI,” arXiv, March 18, 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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Disputed arXiv 2603.17898 identifies Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner, and Maciej Szkróbka as coauthors; this paper text cannot be verified as a single-author Klaus Prettner quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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