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Comment by Klaus Prettner
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.Disputed (Mar 18, 2026)
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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.
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