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OpenAI Proposes Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Funds, and a Four-Day Workweek to Manage AI's Economic Disruption
OpenAI released a detailed economic policy paper outlining how governments should respond to superintelligence — including taxing AI-generated profits, creating sovereign wealth funds to distribute gains broadly, and reducing the standard workweek. The proposal is notable for what it concedes: that AI will displace workers at scale and that market mechanisms alone will not produce equitable outcomes.