Ezra Chapman #Curious Futurist: What Happens To Justice When Machines Make The Decisions? #0039
Mar 4, 2026
Alastair Wilson-Gough, futurist and global tax and restructuring expert, maps AI’s seismic impact on justice, taxation, governance and work. He discusses taxing digital consumption, compute as sovereign infrastructure, robotic dexterity tipping points, risks of outsourcing judgment to machines, and how abundance and automation reshape purpose, resilience, and global power dynamics.
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Tax Will Shift To Consumption Of Digital Intelligence
- AI accelerates a shift from production to digital consumption as the primary taxable base.
- Alastair argues tax will follow where value is consumed: ads, engagement and transfers of code will be taxed at point of use on gross revenue.
Tax Transfers Of Code At Point Of Use
- Tax authorities should tax transfers of code and digital transfers at point of use on gross receipts.
- Alastair recommends taxing every transfer of code and attachments like advertising/data analytics because IA is fundamentally code.
Current AI Models Already Enable Autonomous Knowledge Work
- Alastair and Ezra see current models powering autonomous execution across many knowledge tasks now.
- Ezra claims models can plan, execute and remember to automate ~95% of knowledge‑work functionality powering rapid service automation.