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.