Industrial Policy in the Age of AI

OpenAI released a skeleton report for industrial policy in the age of abundant AI.

This document offers initial ideas for an industrial policy agenda to keep people first during the transition to superintelligence. It is organized in two sections: 1) building an open economy with broad access, participation, and shared prosperity; and 2) building a resilient society through accountability, alignment, and management of frontier risks. OpenAI is offering these ideas to help start a broader conversation about the kinds of policies and institutions needed to navigate the transition, a conversation that needs to happen among governments, companies, civil society, communities, and families. These ideas are intentionally early and exploratory, offered not as a comprehensive or final set of recommendations, but as a starting point for discussion that we invite others to build on, refine, challenge, or choose among through the democratic process. They also focus on the United States as a starting point, but the conversation—and the solutions—must ultimately be global. The transition to superintelligence is not a distant possibility—it’s already underway, and the choices we make in the near term will shape how its benefits and risks are distributed for decades to come.

Important themes in this report include: establishing universal access standards for AI, modernizing the tax base, creating a public wealth fund to directly distribute economic gains to all, and converting efficiency gains into what the authors call efficiency dividends.

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