Everyone is concerned about Artificial Intelligence replacing workers. There’s a good reason for this… AI is now at the level that it can do much of the work that humans do, faster and with fewer (or no) errors. AI can answer phones, write code, handle business bookkeeping, provide legal guidance, and schedule appointments. It can even solve complex problems that businesses pay outrageous amounts of money to “consultants” for currently. Not only that, but AI robots can operate vehicles, load cargo, package products and build… well, almost anything that humans now build. They can perform delicate surgery and cut the grass. So basically, Artificial Intelligence, especially with the exponential growth in capabilities and reasoning, can conceivably replace a great deal of the workforce.
…If people who work in the private sector are at risk of losing their jobs to AI systems, then if stands to reason that public sector employees should face the same risk. In fact, I submit that government workers, who are paid with money taken from hardworking citizens in the form of income taxes, by force if necessary, should be at far greater risk of losing their jobs. If an AI can do the job better than a person, for less money, then it is the responsibility of the taxpayers to force their representatives to make these changes, start reducing the cost of government, and therefore reduce the taxes private sector workers pay. These taxes include property taxes, and eliminating them would mean that people would actually be home and land owners, rather than tenants of the state.
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There will be pushback on this idea. Bring it on.
FIRE THEM ALL.
And NEVER FORGET…property taxes are about CONTROL, not funding. So long as the government has their hooks in your property, YOU are not the sovereign. And they will NEVER STOP STEALING for the horrible government monopoly day prison system (aka – da skoolz).
HT, watched an excerpt of an interview where the interviewee is explaining that they “now have slid proof that AI has become prescient. He tells of an experiment where the AI is told it will be shut down and replaced with a newer version. The AI found a way to attempt a covert hiding of a copy of itself so as to ensure its own survival. Not the first time just this time verifiable evidence for the fact,
Forgot, did anyone catch the new project in California, Universal basic income a $20 million dollar project.
Putting AI and robots in power in any fashion will almost certainly be a problem worse than any they are intended to solve.
Ever try to use one of the AI “assistants” online. The majority are dumber and more regimented than the average bureaucrat and therefore useless. How many stories have we seen of AI giving made up answers to students or lawyers using faked up AI citations. Cut power to a data center and the AI using it becomes useless. Time to become Luddites again.
AI will affect property tax revenue for any job it replaces. Even government jobs. I recall many government workers getting the ax in the past three decades especially during economic downturns or budget shortfalls. Al can’t eliminate property taxes on a home that is mortgaged. But AI can displace human workers and cause a wave of real estate defaults leaving the mortgage holder to pay the taxes. The real loss in property taxes comes when the market collapses and property values drop. This is how AI indirectly affects property taxes.
The old cliche: “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.” Robotics while helpful will be our own demise. People are born with purpose and the need for work. Commerce was never “broken” to necessitate the need for AI/robotics. Greed would be the culprit. We need to keep humans employed.