External signal·OpenAI·Apr 6, 2026·10 min read
Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First
“ensuring that advanced AI benefits everyone”
Summary
A 13-page policy paper from OpenAI proposing economic reforms for what it calls the approaching transition to superintelligence. Headline ideas include a sovereign-style Public Wealth Fund paying returns directly to citizens, higher capital-gains and corporate taxes tied to AI-driven returns, taxes on automated labor, wage-linked incentives for firms that retain and train workers, and pilots of a 32-hour / four-day workweek at full pay. The paper argues access to AI should be treated as fundamental to economic participation, akin to literacy or electricity, and frames the proposals as intentionally early and exploratory.
Predictions for the future of work
Assumes AI will reshape work, knowledge, and production deeply enough to require redistributing the gains. The implied forecast is that significant displacement is coming and the policy task is to share the upside — through a wealth fund and shorter hours — before it bites.
Originally published by OpenAI · Apr 6, 2026
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