OpenAI sounds warning about the AI future, and offers a policy roadmap

OpenAI is offering policy suggestions for an AI world, and warns it is coming sooner than you think. (Picture: Shutterstock)
We are entering the AI age with all engines running, OpenAI says, and we need to be prepared for a future where production is done by robots, capital gains amass rapidly and regular people might be forced out.

While saying there are ways to mitigate this, like offering a four-day workweek and massively expanding the social safety net akin to the New Deal policies after the Great Depression, OpenAI says time is running out.

Their proposals suggest drastically increasing capital gains taxes and offers an idea to tax automation in factories, as they push regular people out of jobs — and envisions creating a public wealth fund powered by AI, that can empower citizens directly and offer them a stake in the future.

OpenAIs policy paper also lays out how they see access to AI as «foundational for participation in the modern economy» and is similar to that of cars or electricity. Every citizen should have access, they say.

Read more: The policy paper (13 pages, dense). Writeups on Axios, Business Insider and TechCrunch.

UN: AI market to reach $4.8 trillion, 40% of jobs to be affected

The United Nations are worried developing nations will miss out on AI.
The United Nations are worried developing nations will miss out on AI. (Picture via www.localdigital.com.au)
The UN Trade and development organization doesn’t think AI will simply go away, predicting instead that nearly half of all jobs will be affected by 2033.

They also warn that only a hundred corporations control the technology, and say the difference between developed and developing nations will grow as the technology gets unevenly rolled out.

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