Can we tax robots faster than we build them?
If OpenAI’s proposal shifts the tax burden from labor to automation, what happens to companies that automate before the tax system catches up—and could the revenue from robot taxes actually materialize quickly enough to fund dividends before mass displacement hits?
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In today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts (April 6th), we explored OpenAI’s ‘Superintelligence New Deal’ proposal, which essentially asks policymakers to tax automation and fund citizen AI dividends before the AI economy even exists at scale. The challenge isn’t just political—it’s mathematical. As the host noted, Norway spent fifty years building its sovereign wealth fund on oil revenues; OpenAI is proposing to do it in years on revenues that haven’t materialized yet. The episode digs into whether the tax base can grow fast enough to keep pace with displacement, and what happens to workers in the gap. What’s your instinct—is this a genuine solution or a promise that depends entirely on AI productivity gains we can’t yet guarantee? Join us to explore the timing problem at the heart of the deal.
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