Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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  Elizabeth Warren

  U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

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  Building an economy that works for all of us will require multiple policy responses. But it starts by acknowledging: it’s time to tax AI and invest in people. [...] Right now, companies pay payroll taxes for their workers but get tax breaks for inves...

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  Gita Gopinath

  Former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Harvard economist

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  If AI leads to a transformation, where the labor share goes down by a lot more and the capital share goes up by a lot more, you can't run the kinds of programs you're running, in terms of entitlements, without having a higher capital income tax. It's...

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  Deric Cheng

  Director of Research at Windfall Trust; lead of AGI Social Contract initiative; AI economics and policy researcher

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  Tax revenues globally could be at risk from transformative artificial intelligence (TAI) due to a shift from labor to capital, the concentration of economic profits, and weak international tax coordination. [...] A progressive global corporate profit...

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  We somehow have to have a way of — when AI agents replace people — doing what Bill Gates has suggested recently. We have to have a way of taxing the AI agents, so there's still a tax base.

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  Yanis Varoufakis

  Former finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens

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  While privatisation and private equity asset-strip material wealth, cloud capital goes about asset-stripping our brains [...] if each of us is to reclaim ownership of our individual minds, we need to collectively take ownership of cloud capital.

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  Bernie Sanders

  U.S. Senator from Vermont

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  Robots don't need a wage, health care, time off, sick leave, Social Security, Medicare or unemployment benefits. The same handful of oligarchs who have rigged our economy for decades are now moving as fast as they can to replace human workers with wh...

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  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Economist, AI & productivity scholar

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  votes For and says:

  We've really been very unbalanced in how we tax labor and capital. Let's level the playing field and not favor entrepreneurs putting people out of work by replacing them with capital.

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  Thomas Piketty

  French economist and professor

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  When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based. ...

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  Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

  US innovation policy think tank

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  Higher taxes on capital income reduce the return on investment, weakening firms' incentives to invest in AI infrastructure, advanced equipment, and productivity-enhancing technologies, which in a global environment where countries such as China are a...

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  Anton Korinek

  Economist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public finance

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  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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  Lawrence Summers

  Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus of Harvard University; economist

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  votes Against and says:

  Why pick on robots? [...] I don't think simply trying to resist or stop technology is a viable strategy. I don't think it would be a viable strategy if it was adoptable on a global basis, but it's even less viable for a single country in internationa...

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