Wenn KI Arbeitskräfte ersetzt, sollte sie dann auch Steuern zahlen? – Der technologische Wettlauf der Branchenriesen und die von ihnen angekündigte Entlassungswelle haben die Debatte über die Zweckmäßigkeit einer Besteuerung der Automatisierung wiederbelebt.
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/if-ai-replaces-workers-should-it-also-pay-taxes.html
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It can’t be seen or touched, but it’s shaking up markets and attracting investment. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the object of desire for Big Tech, which is pouring astronomical sums into its development, fueled by record profits. The other side of this frenzy is workforce reductions, with automation as the backdrop, announced by multinationals like Amazon, Meta, and UPS, which, incidentally, threaten to extend the impact of new technologies to another area: public coffers. Fewer people working means fewer taxpayers, so the question naturally arises: if machines and algorithms replace humans in their jobs, should they also have to cover the taxes that humans stop paying?
If it doesnt happen before AI begins taking jobs (like right now) then it never will.
Maybe the power they consume should be at a higher rate.
any business or corporation that ‚employs‘ AI or uses AI to replace human workers pays more taxes. much more.
If most people don’t have to work, does money need to exist?
When signalling to shareholders goes wrong
We’ll see but imo this shit is so ridiculously overhyped. Probably harsh of me but if generative ai as is is taking your job you were pretty much fungible anyway. In my industry a few companies that have done this very quietly went and rehired people.
Companies who dont use AI should get a tax rebate for employing living people who then pay taxes. AI-free is the next revolution.
you sound like our government has the brain capacity to do that.
Machines don’t pay taxes. Tools don’t pay taxes. Software doesn’t pay taxes.
Why would AI?
No, its not a person, it doesnt need social security or Medicare, or federal Govt help, food stamps, roads, infrastructure, etc. It has no personhood. This is an insane line of thinking that you tax „AI“. How do you even quantify that? It makes no damn sense. Whats next? Are we gonna retroactively tax telephone exchanges for getting rid of switchboard girls?
Whomever thought of this idea needs to be slapped in the mouth.
If I get taxed for owning an electric vehicle due to lost gas tax revenue then we can tax AI for lost income tax revenue.
Not sure how, but profits made from AI work should be taxed very high, and used to pay UBI.