Ask HN: We tax labour, why not tax AI?

I don't think we tax labour. We tax earnings.

I'm unclear about how exactly we tax AI. Do we do it per token? Do we tax the companies that use AI? Or provide AI? Do you tax training data brokers or training/inference compute providers? It's unclear who you want to tax.

Is labor and ai even a meaningful equivalence? I think not.

Do you mean like humanoid?

A actual tax on humanoids performing human jobs could just be seen as a speed limiter, and, I'm pretty sure that goes directly against everyones goals and the best interest of anyone in that position

Purpose of taxation is to fund something that benefits society but needs to be paid for.

What exactly do you think AI tax incomes should be used for? Developing government funded LLMs? Providing free AI access to those who can't afford?

Or is it simply about milking the rich?