Brian Albrecht Cited in The New York Times on AI Tax Proposals
The New York Times cited Brian Albrecht, ICLE Chief Economist, in a DealBook piece examining various proposals to tax artificial intelligence companies and their operations. The article referenced Brian’s Substack writing as a counterpoint to arguments for taxing capital broadly, with Brian defending economists’ conventional wisdom that such taxes remain counterproductive so long as AI has not fully displaced human labor.
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Brian Albrecht, the chief economist at the International Center for Law & Economics, fired back on Substack earlier this year that economists’ conventional wisdom remains correct as long as the robots haven’t completely taken over. “A compute tax is a REALLY dumb idea,” he headlined a follow-up piece this month.