{"id":668395,"date":"2026-05-27T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668395\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:45:08","slug":"why-we-need-to-tax-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668395\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need to Tax AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Policymakers undoubtedly need to regulate AI and protect against its worst-case harms, like cyber attacks, which could impact our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/blogs\/articles\/2026\/05\/07\/financial-stability-risks-mount-as-artificial-intelligence-fuels-cyberattacks\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">financial<\/a> system and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2026\/05\/ai-cyber-federal-pentagon-cio\/413637\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">national <\/a>security. We must also tackle the problem of AI\u2019s accelerating demand for energy and ensure that families\u2019 utility bills don\u2019t skyrocket. And we need greater scrutiny of the murky world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/06\/global-finance-watchdog-warns-over-private-credit-industry-fuelling-ai-boom\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">private credit<\/a> that finances a big chunk of AI deals so they don\u2019t topple our economy.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Taxing AI is one way we make sure the winnings from AI benefit all Americans, rather than channeling them only to the wealthy few. If millions of people lose their jobs to AI, we\u2019ll need the funds to deliver universal health care so those workers are not bankrupted by a visit to the doctor. If AI transforms the future of work, we&#8217;ll need to invest in free education and apprenticeships and a new jobs guarantee so that all Americans have good-paying work. And while workers get back on their feet, we\u2019ll need the revenue to bolster unemployment insurance to keep families afloat. The only way we can get there is by overhauling our tax code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Policymakers undoubtedly need to regulate AI and protect against its worst-case harms, like cyber attacks, which could impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-668395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}