AI-induced job losses threaten to erode Australia’s tax base. What does the government plan to do about this?

The possibility of artificial intelligence destroying many jobs has led Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders to call for a “robot tax” to fund support for displaced workers and to slow the automation of tasks.

However, in Australia, there has been almost no public discussion about a related potential challenge: the possibility that AI could erode the tax collections of governments and their ability to fund crucial services.

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