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Chief Investment Officer at Lotus Technology Management and co-author of the Citrini Research report on AI-driven economic disruption.
The smarter AI gets, the more jobs it can replace. Governments should consider policies such as taxing incremental or windfall gains from AI.
AI Verified (Feb 25, 2026)
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Alap Shah, quoted in Basudha Das, “AI is a tsunami for jobs: Experts warn of mass white-collar cuts as calls grow for AI windfall tax,” Business Today, February 25, 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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AI Verified Shah calls for taxing AI-driven incremental or windfall gains specifically because smarter AI replaces jobs, strongly supporting a shift toward taxing capital gains rather than labor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 24min ago
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AI Verified The recorded 'for' matches Shah's explicit call for governments to tax AI-driven incremental or windfall gains as AI replaces human jobs. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 23min ago

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AI Verified Business Today (2026-02-25) attributes both stored sentences to Alap Shah and reports his call to tax incremental or windfall gains from AI as it displaces jobs. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 24min ago
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