OpenAI releases AI economic vision: Reshaping a new order of wealth and employment in the era of intelligence

1、 Three core goals: making AI prosperous, inclusive, secure, and accessible

OpenAI has identified three core goals in its vision to set the direction for the development of the AI economy:

One is to widely share the prosperity of AI, reject the concentration of wealth to a few tech giants, and allow the whole society to equally share the dividends of the intelligent revolution; The second is to establish a risk prevention system to address systemic risks such as employment impact, economic monopoly, and security loss caused by AI; The third is to achieve universal AI capability, define basic AI access as "basic human rights", and become social public infrastructure like electricity and the Internet, so as to avoid widening the digital divide.

OpenAI bluntly stated that humanity is entering a period of super intelligence transformation, and AI will surpass humans in most cognitive tasks. The existing economic system, tax system, and social security network are no longer compatible, and a new policy framework must be used to guide AI technology towards goodness, to prevent technological progress from exacerbating wealth inequality and triggering social unrest.

2、 Six major policy ideas: restructuring taxation, employment, and wealth distribution

OpenAI proposes six specific policies around three major goals, targeting the core pain points of the AI economy:

1. Establishing an AI Public Wealth Fund: The government takes the lead in setting up a public wealth fund, holding public equity in AI companies and intelligent infrastructure, allowing all citizens to automatically share the growth benefits of the AI industry without investing, and the benefits are directly distributed to the public. This mechanism aims to break the monopoly of tech giants on AI wealth and make everyone a "shareholder" of the smart economy.

2. Levying a 'robot tax' and adjusting the tax system structure: shifting the tax burden from labor to capital, increasing the tax rates on corporate profits and capital gains; Research on levying a 'robot tax' to tax automated systems that replace human jobs, with a tax amount equivalent to the tax payable by the replaced workers, using the tax revenue to support employment transformation and social security.

3. Implementing the 'Four Day Work System without Salary Reduction': By providing policy subsidies to encourage companies to implement a four-day work system without reducing employee salaries, the production efficiency improved by AI can be directly transformed into worker welfare, improving work life balance, and alleviating employment substitution pressure, allowing AI technology to serve human welfare rather than simply profit growth.

4. Expand the national social safety net: significantly expand unemployment benefits, medical subsidies, and social security, providing a safety net for workers permanently replaced by AI; Establish transferable welfare accounts, allowing medical insurance, retirement benefits, and other benefits to flow across positions with workers, adapting to the new forms of flexible employment and frequent career transitions in the AI era.

5. Popularize basic access to AI: Open basic AI models to the public for free or at a low price, covering schools, libraries, small and medium-sized enterprises, and underdeveloped communities; Integrating AI capabilities into the national education system, ensuring that everyone masters the basic skills to participate in the smart economy, and not allowing any group to be excluded from the AI dividend.

6. Accelerate the construction of AI infrastructure: Accelerate the expansion of infrastructure such as power grids and computing centers to meet the explosive growth of electricity and computing power demand for AI; Through subsidies, tax credits, and other means, we will promote the penetration of AI technology into traditional industries, assist in the intelligent transformation of manufacturing and service industries, and expand the inclusive coverage of the AI economy.