We Need a ChatGPT Tax to Compensate Society for AI’s Blunders

It seems the owners of generative artificial intelligence models have been looking to improve them with an eye toward asking for forgiveness rather than permission. Late last month, two lawsuits were filed against OpenAI: one over scraped private data and another over copyrighted books.

If creators of books and other media can’t be readily identified in such lawsuits, they won’t be able to receive compensation. Only a tax on AI can recapture some of the value generated by unidentifiable creators and redistributed toward projects furthering social good.

AI Generates Externalities

Ameliorating externalities is a major goal of tax policy; we’ve ...