Sam Altman wants Washington to tax AI’s winners — and he’s put it in writing.
On Monday, OpenAI released a 13-page paper entitled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” It offers a sweeping policy blueprint that proposes tax hikes on corporate income, among other revenue-boosting levers that shift the tax burden from labor to capital.
“Policymakers could rebalance the tax base by increasing reliance on capital-based revenues—such as higher taxes on capital gains at the top, corporate income, or targeted measures on sustained AI-driven returns—and by exploring new approaches such as taxes related to automated labor,” the report reads.
Even in the face of relentless warnings about AI’s presumed labor market disruption, the Trump administration has doubled down on an anti-regulatory stance on the technology’s development. In December, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing “burdensome” state rule and preventing “cumbersome regulation.”
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