Phil Wolff

So AI comes with societal costs. Mass unemployment, water diversion from drinking and agriculture to data center cooling, energy use and carbon emissions, and even messing with truth/trust in what comes through our screens. How can society get the #AI #supplychain to absorb its #negativeexternalities? Where do you #tax? What do you fine? How does society supervise? Who regulates?

> AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath

Hardly anyone is paying attention.

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May 28 at 3:14pmWeb
Show threadPhil WolffMay 28
We might #tax close to the edge of harm. Watts and water at data centers (favoring harder-to-meter #decentralized #AI). Collect unemployment insurance (and #basicincome contributions) from employers of #digitallabor.
Show threadPhil WolffMay 28

Is #ai a #stack you tax just at one layer because it's easier to meter, like compute?

Or at each layer according to each #negativeexternality, so a language education app pays into #basicincome (human worker displacement) while an AI casting tool pays movie industry #union dues?