There's a lot of fear out there that AI could eliminate a ton of jobs, form a permanent underclass,
and enrich just a few people.
Right now, we haven't seen large layoffs, but tech hiring is slow,
and we've seen huge growth in wealth at the top since the launch of ChatGPT.
Yeah, just scan the rich list: Elon Musk, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Google's Larry Page.
These are all people whose wealth is ballooning with the race to build AI.
The richest 26 Americans' wealth has grown an estimated 127 percent
since November 2022. And so if this is just a taste of the future,
some lawmakers are demanding we tax AI and give the rest of us an AI dividend.
This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
Today on the show, should we tax AI?
The AI race has made a lot of people richer,
but most of those gains seem to have gone to those already with metaphorical bathtubs full of money.
Yes.
Meanwhile, everyday workers aren't seeing big pay raises.
We speak to a congressional candidate who wants to tax AI, and we talk to a tax expert who has her reservations.
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