What if the AI boom never turns a profit?
Marketplace Tech

What if the AI boom never turns a profit?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 20265 min
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Even if artificial intelligence leads to a more prosperous future in the long run, most agree there will be a lot of disruption in the meantime. Marketplace’s senior correspondent for Future Effects, David Brancaccio, explores how that AI disruption will mean layoffs, underemployment and ultimately less income tax revenue for the government. Experts say now’s the time to revamp the tax system for the age of AI.

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Where the rubber meets AI. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Carino. An AI future could bring major economic disruption, including job loss.

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And fewer paychecks can mean less federal tax revenue. Experts say now is the time to rethink that system for the age of AI. Marketplace's future effects correspondent David Brancaccio went to Akron, Ohio, once the rubber capital of the world,

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to see what an earlier tech transformation might tell us about the AI transition ahead. Technology does not always take us to a better place. Ask the members of the famed New Wave band out of Akron, Ohio in the 1970s. I'm a mechanical man from the band Devo for D Evolution.

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