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We don't tax just to discourage. We tax to fund our society. We tax the income of workers under the theory that they are adding value and that added value is the fairest thing to tax.

With AI, it should be exactly the same thing, except that the AI and bots don't draw a salary. It is a stretch to tax the use of AI, bots and agents. But what makes perfect sense is to tax that value chain upstream at its origin.

For example, if a company sells a LLM solution to another company with the proposition that it will allow them to eliminate 40 customer support employees, then there should be a tax at the origin. The builder/seller of this tech should be taxed:
*** 40 employees X
*** useful life of the solution (10 years) X
*** Average salary of the displaced workers ($50,000) X
*** the normal income tax rate (say, an effective rate of 20%)

In other words, when selling this solution, either the seller or the buyer should be liable for a tax assessment of FOUR MILLION DOLLARS. In addition, the AI seller should be responsible for unemployment insurance, FICA and the other payroll taxes the displaced workers would have paid.