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Economist and coauthor of the 2026 study “Workers’ Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI.”
When AI becomes a good substitute for human cognitive work and its adoption drives down the wages of cognitive workers relative to manual workers, cognitive workers may find it optimal to seek manual jobs. In such a scenario, it is optimal to tax AI capital and to subsidize traditional capital and manual labor.
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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 Maciej Szkróbka quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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