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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Harry Taylor

MP calls for companies to pay tax for AI bots used to replace workers

The Government should introduce a tax on large companies which use artificial intelligence to replace workers, an MP has said, over fears about the impact on employment and tax revenues.

Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole) said the proposed measure would help replace income tax and national insurance sums that would be lost from the Treasury under the increased use of AI in the workplace.

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