Re:Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017)
by techbio on Saturday August 04, 2018 @04:15PM
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I hope someone will treat the concept in greater depth than I can, but in my mind it seems imperative to universally tax robots and AI for some measure of their income, to balance new distortions placed upon real people's innate capacities to produce. I'm especially interested in a convincing argument of why not to, as none have come past me yet.
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Re:Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017)
by jon_richards on Saturday August 04, 2018 @10:38PM
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Where do we want to be? I'd argue we want full automation and some form of universal basic income (probably implemented through reverse taxation).
Taxing automation over corporate profit makes that reality further away because it lessens incentives to automate. Increasing corporate/estate/etc taxes leaves the incentives to automate intact.
It's like arguing that we should tax renewable energy because we're going to run out of oil eventually anyway.