The Role of Artificial Intelligence Tax in Reducing the Unemployment Problem

The fear of the impact of artificial intelligence applications in the labor market on unemployment rates has increased. After the total global investment in this field did not exceed eight billion dollars in 2015, the global market for artificial intelligence globally will reach about 70 billion dollars by 2025. Many economic analysts believe that the application of artificial intelligence in industrial fields in particular will produce factories with much fewer employees than the current number, which will cause an increase in unemployment rates. Therefore, countries are trying to adapt to these systems, not only at the level of research and development of these systems, but also on the extent of strategic planning for the change they bring about on the economic level in general, and on the labor market in particular. One of the tools that these countries can use in their attempts to solve this problem is the artificial intelligence tax.

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