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Elizabeth Warren calls for taxing AI industry to 'invest in people’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is advocating for targeting the artificial intelligence industry with taxes."It's time to tax AI and invest in people," the left-wing lawmaker has asserted.She has floated the prospect of taxing the energy consumed by AI data centers.SEN WARREN BLASTED FOR CHEERING BLOCKING OF MERGER THAT MIGHT HAVE SAVED SPIRIT AIRLINES"Rethinking our tax code must also include going to the source: that means taxing AI companies directly, which can start with taxing AI data centers," she wrote in an opinion piece posted by Time. "By imposing a reasonable excise tax on the energ...