Andrew Yang says the US is taxing the wrong thing as artificial intelligence begins to reshape the labor market. "You tend to tax things that you want to discourage, that you want less of," the Forward Party founder and former presidential candidate said in an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday. As AI systems replace human tasks, he said, "we should actually try to stop taxing labor." Instead, Yang believes companies benefiting most from automation should shoulder more of the tax