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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
July 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Economics

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Artificial Intelligence, capitalism, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), free market, Friedrich Hayek, guaranteed universal income, I Pencil, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)), Leonard Read, Ryan Abbott, Socialism, Steven Cherry, Tax policy, The Reasonable Robot (book), The Use of Knowledge in Society (book), Universal Basic Income}

Should Robots Pay Taxes?

_{Taxing artificial intelligence is the latest proposal to expand centralized control of human life} _{Richard W. Stevens

July 21, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics}

In June 2021, we started considering the provocatively titled podcast transcript, “Can a Robot Be Arrested? Hold a Patent? Pay Income Taxes?”, posted on the IEEE Spectrum site. Steven Cherry interviewed Ryan Abbott, physician, lawyer, and professor, about these topics and referencing his 2019 book, The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. We’ve discussed whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could be charged with crimes or can hold a patent. Whether “robots should pay taxes” turns out to be the scariest question yet. Touching upon the subject only lightly in the podcast, Abbott details the problem of taxing AI in Reasonable Robot, following this thought process: Automation using AI threatens to increase human unemployment. Current U.S. tax law encourages automation through favorable treatment Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 13, 2021

Categorized
Media, Peer Review, Science

Tagged
Academic publishing, arXiv.org, BIO-Complexity, Featured, Google Scholar, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)), Open access publishing, Scholarly Publishing}

Inside the Economics of Science Papers

_{Here’s an inside look at who pays if you read for free} _{Robert J. Marks

May 13, 2021

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Media, Peer Review, Science}

When a scholarly paper is published, someone has to pay. Publishers like Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), my professional society, and Springer charge big bucks to read their papers. The fees are billed to individual subscribers and, more commonly, to companies and universities who want to give their employees access to the papers. My own university, Baylor, like most research universities, has a considerable library budget on account of these publisher fees. There is growing pressure to kill these fees in favor of “open access” to scholarly papers. Thus, anyone can read a scholarly paper at any time for free. Free access takes the money from the pockets of publishers so they push back. Someone has to pay, Read More ›