Companies should treat AI as a tool to expand services and human capacity rather than a shortcut to headcount reduction. Policy levers (tax credits for jobs, higher taxes on extractive capital gains) and corporate practices that prioritize human‑AI integration can preserve jobs while improving customer outcomes.
— This reframes AI governance from narrow safety/ethics talk to concrete industrial and tax policy choices about who captures AI gains and whether automation widens or narrows shared prosperity.
Tim Cooper
2025.12.02
100% relevant
Tim O’Reilly’s quote: 'If you replace humans with AI, it won’t make customer service better' and his call to 'lower taxes for employing people, and raise taxes on extractive capital gains.'
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