Not a New Deal

Short summary

OpenAI published a thirteen-page policy blueprint proposing robot taxes, a national public wealth fund seeded by AI companies, auto-triggering safety nets, and a four-day work week to manage labor disruption from AI. The article critically examines how a company profiting from the very disruption it causes is now authoring the policy response, drawing parallels and contrasts with FDR's New Deal. While the individual proposals have credible intellectual lineages, the unprecedented source raises questions about whose interests the resulting social contract would serve.

• •OpenAI released a policy document proposing robot taxes, public wealth fund, auto-triggering safety nets, and four-day work week
• •Article critiques the conflict of interest: the firm causing labor disruption is also drafting the policy response
• •Proposals have real intellectual pedigree (Norway sovereign wealth, Alaska Permanent Fund, Bill Gates' robot tax) but the source is unprecedented

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