Sam Altman Publishes 13-Page 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age' — Proposes Robot Taxes, Public Wealth Fund, and 32-Hour Work Week

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published a sweeping 13-page policy blueprint on April 6 proposing 'taxes on automated labor,' a nationally managed Public Wealth Fund (modeled on Alaska's Permanent Fund) seeded by AI companies that would distribute returns to all American citizens, and 32-hour/four-day work week pilots. In a half-hour Axios interview, Altman said superintelligence is 'so close, so disruptive' that America needs a new social contract on the scale of the New Deal. The document also includes 'containment playbooks' for autonomous self-replicating AI systems that 'cannot be easily recalled,' plus automatic safety net triggers that activate when AI displacement metrics hit preset thresholds.