Overview
- OpenAI, which released a 13-page paper Monday titled Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age, proposes a public wealth fund seeded partly by AI firms, taxes on automated labor, and pilots for a 32-hour workweek at full pay.
- The company argues the tax base should shift toward corporate income and capital gains to replace payroll revenue that shrinks when businesses automate human jobs.
- The blueprint pairs policy with risk controls, calling for model audits, incident reporting, and containment playbooks, and highlighting near-term dangers such as large cyberattacks and engineered bioweapons.
- To push the agenda, OpenAI says it will open a Washington office, fund fellowships and research grants with cash and API credits, and host an OpenAI Workshop in May to gather input.
- The rollout coincided with a New Yorker investigation questioning Sam Altman’s candor, prompting some praise for agenda-setting and others’ suspicion that the paper also serves as PR.