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Bhaskar Chakravorti

Dean of global business at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; founder and chair of its Digital Planet research program.

Equalizing the treatment of labor and capital would tilt adoption toward labor-augmenting tools and help fund the safety net; many economists argue the asymmetry should be redressed.

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Bhaskar Chakravorti, “This Industrial Revolution Is Not Like the Last One,” Foreign Policy, June 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 Chakravorti explicitly favors equalizing labor and capital treatment to encourage labor-augmenting AI and fund the safety net. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Chakravorti explicitly favors equalizing capital and labor treatment to favor labor-augmenting adoption and fund a safety net. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Foreign Policy article by Bhaskar Chakravorti, June 25 2026, contains this exact sentence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits

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