Comment by Jiaying Zhao

Professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia and coauthor of a 2026 proposal for a Canadian AI sovereign wealth fund.
Currently, employment is heavily taxed through income and payroll taxes, making hiring humans relatively expensive compared with deploying software. To encourage work and hiring, we can shift some taxation from human labour to autonomous AI agents. [...] This shift does not reduce government revenue; it simply changes the collection point, from workers to the technology that is replacing them. It ensures automation happens where it truly adds value, not merely where the tax code favours machines.
Disputed (Apr 8, 2026)
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Disputed Policy Magazine’s April 8, 2026 page attributes this passage jointly to Jiaying Zhao, Lorne Whitehead, Yuen Pau Woo, and Kim Pate; it cannot be verified as a single-author quote by Zhao. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 20d ago
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