The AI dividend

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14. It could be an automation tax that functions like income tax

It could be similar to an income tax in the sense that a worker creates output and there is tax on that. For automation, the "workers" would just be robots and AIs. For one thing, that would help level the price playing field between automated labor sources and (human) labor.

As a thought experiment, suppose a company increased production of some good in some supply chain using automation. For tax purposes, we could say that the company might need to pay (at some reduced level to preserve incentive) an imaginary "income" to the automation. Then, they just pay income tax and FICA (Social Security and Medicaid) tax on that "income."