Overview
- The 13-page “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,” released Monday, outlines how government could handle superintelligent AI with new tax, labor, and safety measures.
- It proposes a national Public Wealth Fund, seeded in part by AI companies, that would invest in AI-driven growth and pay returns directly to Americans.
- The plan urges shifting the tax base from payroll to corporate income and capital gains and explores “robot taxes” on automated labor to backfill revenue that funds programs like Social Security and Medicaid.
- OpenAI recommends piloting a 32-hour, four-day workweek at full pay and using data-triggered expansions of unemployment benefits and wage insurance when AI job losses cross preset thresholds.
- Sam Altman highlights near-term cyber and biological threats and calls for government-led containment playbooks, while OpenAI opens a Washington office and funds research grants to push these ideas into ongoing policy debates.