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Anthropic CEO Floats Tax on AI firms to Fund Universal Income
['Ryan Hogg']
BIEN — Basic Income Earth Network
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market.
“Broadly speaking, fast economic growth should create the tax base for shared prosperity,” wrote Amodei.
The Anthropic CEO called for “retention tax incentives to encourage employers not to make layoffs,” alongside wage insurance policies that would compensate people forced to take a lower paying job.
Anthropic is one of the leading AI companies, alongside OpenAI and the traditional Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google.
Governments should also consider “pro-employment incentives” to dissuade companies from replacing labor with AI, Amodei wrote.