Marketplace Tech · Monday, September 14, 2026
To compensate for potential declines in human labor taxes, alternative revenue streams are being considered. These include taxing AI per unit, similar to how gasoline is taxed, or improving the taxation of corporate profits, especially for companies that leverage AI effectively.
“Or Megan, maybe tax AI per unit of AI, like we tax gasoline by the gallon.”
“One winner of the Nobel for economics told me that since we don't know which companies get super rich with AI, right? It might not be an AI company, but it could be a company in the future that uses AI well, then we should just do a better job taxing corporate profits in general.”