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Comment by Jeremy Bearer-Friend
Professor of Law at George Washington University; tax law scholar focused on AI and equity
We propose a tax that would allow the public to own a share of AI itself, not just through future income tax liabilities or new excise taxes, but a proposed ownership structure that requires a one-time tax payment by generative AI firms in the form of equity. [...] Sharing ownership of AI would compensate injured creators alongside the broader public whose data was nonconsensually harvested.
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(2026)
25d ago
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Verified. WebFetch on the Tax Notes URL returned HTTP 403, but a targeted web search confirmed the quote matches Jeremy Bearer-Friend's proposal (co-authored with Sarah Polcz in "Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI," Columbia Journal of Tax Law) as discussed on the Tax Notes Talk podcast at the source URL: a one-time in-kind tax requiring generative AI firms to remit equity to the public, compensating injured creators and the broader public whose data was nonconsensually harvested. Author attribution is correct (Jeremy Bearer-Friend, Professor of Law at George Washington University, tax law scholar). His vote "for" the statement "Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth" aligns directly with his own proposal for public equity ownership of AI. Year 2026 matches (related op-ed published May 2026). Source URL is a primary source (his own podcast interview).
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Hector Perez Arenas
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replying to Jeremy Bearer-Friend