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Comment by Anton Korinek

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Economist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public finance
AI threatens to erode the first pillar—taxes on labor—by reducing demand for human labor across many occupations. [...] The main burden of taxation will have to shift away from labor.
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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 The Brookings URL does contain both quoted snippets verbatim—the first sentence appears in the article body, and "The main burden of taxation will have to shift away from labor." appears in the page’s summary bullets—but the page is jointly authored by Anton Korinek and Lee M. Lockwood and is dated January 8, 2026. Because this is a multi-author article, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author Anton Korinek quote; the stored year-only date is also not the canonical page date. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/future-tax-policy-a-public-finance-framework-for-the-age-of-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The Brookings URL is real and dated January 8, 2026, but the article is coauthored by Anton Korinek and Lee M. Lockwood. The source contains the first sentence in the body and a separate bullet saying the tax burden must move away from labor; it does not present the supplied wording as one continuous verbatim passage in that order. That makes the quoted form materially altered and the attribution incomplete. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/future-tax-policy-a-public-finance-framework-for-the-age-of-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Year 2026 (current; Jan 2026). Brookings source returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote from "The future of tax policy: A public finance framework for the age of AI" by Anton Korinek and Lee Lockwood. The article argues "AI threatens to erode the first pillar—taxes on labor—by reducing demand for human labor across many occupations" and that "the main burden of taxation will have to shift away from labor." Corroborated by the underlying NBER working paper (w34873) and Global Government Forum coverage. Attribution to Anton Korinek (UVA/Brookings economist) is correct. The vote "for" on statement 436 ("Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy") aligns: the quote argues the tax burden must move off labor as AI reduces labor demand. (Note: the paper's broader prescription also includes consumption/other tax bases, but the core thrust of shifting away from labor taxation matches the statement.) · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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