To the editor: Salesforce has eradicated 4,000 jobs due to synthetic intelligence (“Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he lower 4,000 help roles due to AI,” Sept. 2). This implies 4,000 fewer roles that might have staff paying payroll taxes to help Social Safety and Medicare. The federal government ought to create laws that makes AI “staff” pay into these social applications — in different phrases, have the firms chargeable for AI make up the distinction.
These tech firms would nonetheless be making loads of cash. If AI “staff” are going to switch us, why ought to they have the ability to keep away from paying taxes on the worth they create to their employers?
D. Anthony Peters, Laguna Seashore
