BBC Eyes Tax on People Who Don’t Watch BBC
Whitehall considers making households that never watch the BBC pay the licence fee anyway. In London, the licence fee follows you home.
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Conscious AI Must Pay Council Tax, Says the Treasury
Hinton says we’re toast. Westminster asks about VAT. LONDON, October 24, 2026 – Humanity faces possible extinction after Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton warned that artificial intelligence may already be conscious, prompting British government officials to begin examining whether the machines threatening civilisation are paying their fair share of council tax. According to an October 22 Futurism report on Geoffrey Hinton’s AI consciousness warning, the British-Canadian scientist believes artificial…