No prevailed narrowly overall, 32 votes to 26, a result closer than a rout but decisive enough to settle the question against a new automation levy — for now.
The real story sits in the gender split. Men who voted here were net in favour of taxing companies that replace workers with AI, 17 yes to 12 no. Women went the other way by a landslide, 18 no to just 4 yes, making this one of the sharper gender divides the platform has recorded on an economic question.
Age tells a messier story: the 25-34 bracket was the only sizeable cohort to back the levy (14-12), while every one of the eight 35-44s voted no, a unanimity rare enough to stand out even in a small sample. The under-25s leaned no too, suggesting little generational consensus that automation taxes are the answer to AI's labour-market bite — this isn't the young-versus-old fault line that usually structures tech debates, but something else entirely, cutting along gender instead.
Read alongside the India "people credit tax" proposals cited in the brief, the vote suggests British appetite for a formal robot tax remains thin and heavily gendered, not the broad cross-class demand that usually precedes serious Treasury interest.
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