[s__s]

I firmly believe AI will become heavily taxed and regulated.

It would be foolish to ban it, but equally foolish to allow it to replace a large percentage of your country’s workforce. It would completely destabilize the economy and society as a whole.

AI can do a lot of great things for humanity. Putting vast amounts of people out of a job is not one of those things.

There needs to be more smart people talking about and studying what the future realistically looks like.

[tim333]

Taxing and regulating the AI itself wouldn't work very well as competitors abroad or who skirt the regulations would be able to use it. You might be able to require human supervision so rather than AI replacing a programer who was laid off, the human would become the AIs supervisor.

[bathtub365]

The world’s richest man has been empowered by the US government to gleefully lay off thousands of federal workers with no published plan beyond “delete government agencies” and his team is using AI as part of the execution. I’m skeptical that there are people in charge who think about anything other than consolidating their own power and lining their own pockets. I think the only AI taxes that might come into play are those that steer people towards services run by those already in power and disincentivize setting up your own AI infrastructure.

[raghavtoshniwal]

The world’s richest man got handed this mandate by someone that was elected by millions of US citizens and he explicitly told them he will do this. Enough people in the US want to see this happen.

I don't know if enough people would not agree to highly tax the corporations if they're themselves out of work and need the money to survive.