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Senator Elizabeth Warren published an op-ed in Time magazine arguing for the implementation of a tax on AI.
Elizabeth Warren proposed imposing an excise tax on the energy used by AI data centers, with the tax scaling based on the size of the data center.
Mark Cuban proposed a federal tax on AI tokens at the provider level of less than 50 cents per million tokens.
Mark Cuban predicts that his proposed AI token tax could generate approximately $10 billion per year initially and could grow by 30x to 100x over the next 10 years.
David Friedman claims there has been a "secular 200x annual decline in per-token prices" for the last two years.
Michigan US Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow has proposed a comprehensive policy for protecting workers that includes a token tax on AI.
Mallory McMorrow's AI policy proposes an AI workforce reinvestment fund that would require companies automating jobs to contribute to professional apprenticeship and worker retraining programs.
Elizabeth Warren asserts that revenue from an AI tax should be used to fund universal healthcare, free education, apprenticeships, a new jobs guarantee, and to bolster unemployment insurance.
Mark Cuban argues that an AI token tax would incentivize large AI companies to optimize tokenization, caching, routing, and localization, which would in turn reduce energy usage.
Investor Steven Sinofsky criticized the idea of an AI token tax by comparing it to implementing a "bit tax" in 1995.
Palmer Luckey argues that a token tax on US companies would make foreign AI models and products more attractive to customers.
Palmer Luckey warns that implementing a token tax would create government infrastructure to track all AI usage and penalize those who do not report it.