Simon Thorpe has considered human obsolescence and wrote a paper proposing a flat rate transaction tax back in 2010:Yuval Noah Harari, speaks of a "Useless Class" of people, who are not only unemployed, but unemployable.
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The rise of the useless class
Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class.ideas.ted.com
The mind is our last frontier, that gives us advantage over machines.
Humans are now using them to cheat on "intellectual" endeavors?
Not long before it will be a pointless exercise.
"The machine can produce work and has knowledge that you can never surpass.
Sorry, they got the job"..
https://www.researchgate.net/public...inancial_Transaction_Tax_to_replace_all_taxes
This could be linked with the current discussion of a universal income.