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Comment by Tom Blomfield

Group Partner at Y Combinator, cofounded GoCardless and Monzo
“[AI tools] are performing beyond university professor level – they are actually beating humans in narrow domains. They’re not yet generalisable, so they’re very narrow geniuses, but by the end of 2026 they will be generalisable. [...] I don’t think we’ll tax human labour, we’ll tax compute, [meaning systems like] data centres, and then we will use the proceeds to pay for government.”
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Tom Blomfield told The Rest is Money that AI tools are already outperforming humans in narrow domains and will become generalisable, and said that government revenue would shift from human labor to compute and data centers. Georgia Rowe, “Income tax will be dead within five years as AI jobs crisis grows, says Monzo founder,” LBC, 13 April 2026.
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Disputed LBC contains both passages but in the reverse order: the compute-tax sentence precedes the ‘narrow geniuses’ passage (L137 then L140). The stored reordered composite is not a faithful verbatim excerpt. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 6h ago
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