OpenAI Blueprint Proposes 'Containment Playbooks' for Self-Replicating AI Systems That 'Cannot Be Easily Recalled'

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Buried in the 13-page 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,' OpenAI explicitly acknowledges scenarios where dangerous AI systems become autonomous, self-replicating, and 'cannot be easily recalled' — proposing government-coordinated 'containment playbooks' as the response. The document also proposes automatic safety net triggers: when AI-driven displacement metrics hit preset thresholds, unemployment payments and wage insurance would increase automatically, then phase out when conditions stabilize. This is OpenAI — the company racing to build superintelligence — publishing contingency plans for losing control of it, while simultaneously asking Congress to treat the challenge as a Progressive Era-scale policy problem.