The US federal government expects to collect about $1.8 trillion in payroll taxes this year and about $404 billion in corporate income tax. That ratio is why AI displacement is a solvency problem and not only a labor problem – and it’s why robot taxes, public wealth funds and universal basic income moved from the fringe to the Senate floor in a single spring. This video walks through what the frontier AI labs actually proposed, what the one real-world experiment found, and why the tax lawyers say none of it can be defined yet.
