Kelly's AI Tax Bill Struggles to Link Tech with Economic Harms
Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) newly introduced Make AI Work for Americans Act proposes three taxes intended to capture some of the economic gains from artificial intelligence and offset the harms caused to the labor market. But the proposal exposes a fundamental gap: Congress must decide what aspect of AI activity it wants to measure before it can tax that activity coherently.The bill puts a price on “computational processing,” then defines a unit of that processing as 10 kilobytes of binary data. The act would use that tax, along with levies on digital advertising and excess profits, to finance programs to help workers and communities adjust to AI-driven economic disruption.But 10 kilobytes doesn’t tell us much.
- ▪Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) newly introduced Make AI Work for Americans Act proposes three taxes intended to capture some of the economic gains from artificial intelligence and offset the harms caused to the labor market.
- ▪But the proposal exposes a fundamental gap: Congress must decide what aspect of AI activity it wants to measure before it can tax that activity coherently.The bill puts a price on “computational processing,” then defines a unit of that proc
- ▪The act would use that tax, along with levies on digital advertising and excess profits, to finance programs to help workers and communities adjust to AI-driven economic disruption.But 10 kilobytes doesn’t tell us much.
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Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) newly introduced Make AI Work for Americans Act proposes three taxes intended to capture some of the economic gains from artificial intelligence and offset the harms caused to the labor market. But the proposal exposes a fundamental gap: Congress must decide what aspect of AI activity it wants to measure before it can tax that activity coherently.The bill puts a price on “computational processing,” then defines a unit of that processing as 10 kilobytes of binary data. The act would use that tax, along with levies on digital advertising and excess profits, to finance programs to help workers and communities adjust to AI-driven economic disruption.But 10 kilobytes doesn’t tell us much.
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