205
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Which is anothwr way of sayong structural change is needed. South Korea floated the idea of a tax on ai companies. They walked it back after the stock market dipped. The economist, a (economically) liberal paper, is even suggesting higher tax for profits above a certain threshold, and also taxing labour less and capital more. The opposite of their thinking in general.

Yes, the concept of AI changes things and changes the value or work and prosuctivity. Digital technogyndid this already. Digital business can scale in ways traditional ones cant.

Ai has the capacity to upend how the world operates. The question is how we allow the spoils to go. AI companies are hoping they get the lions share. Open models and structural changws tontaxarion and trade and employment law can ensure the apoils dont go that way.

I also see an ai future where the consuner can no longer be ripped off, as consumers dont need to be stuck on amazon or google. Where if they want to buy a gidger, that the ai will search and find the best deals for them, including postage taxes etc. Similar for more conokex purchases, like power, mobile phones, insurance etc.

Businesses hooe that ai can recommend products for advertising dollars. They forget that people are susceptible to advertising and habit in a way that a predection model is not.

My feeling is thatbit either gets managed well and we all benefit, or it doesnt and things go to shit, which leads to revolution in some way, viokent or otherwise. Which means we win. So we win either way.

this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
205 points (99.5% liked)

Technology

84816 readers
4120 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS