OpenAI's policy blueprint is a serious attempt to ensure AI's gains don't just flow to the top — proposing public wealth funds, portable benefits and tax shifts from labor to capital to keep everyday Americans in the game. The plan acknowledges that without bold industrial policy, AI could hollow out Social Security, Medicaid and SNAP as payroll taxes shrink. This is the kind of ambitious, democratic framework needed to make superintelligence work for everyone, not just shareholders.
OpenAI's blueprint is corporate window dressing for an AI economy already engineered to extract maximum value from workers and consumers. Opaque algorithms already fix rents and suppress wages, and no wish list of public wealth funds changes who actually controls the technology. Real governance means building intervention authority into operations before agentic systems outpace any human ability to stop them — not policy proposals drafted by the same firms profiting from the disruption.
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