OpenAI Just Proposed Taxing Robots and You Should Pay Attention to Why
OpenAI's new industrial policy document calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day work week. The remarkable thing is not the proposals themselves but what they imply: the company building AI now admits that market adjustment alone will not absorb the displacement it is driving.
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Three fierce competitors are coordinating through the Frontier Model Forum to combat systematic "distillation" of US frontier models by Chinese AI labs. The move is unprecedented, and its broader effect will be to further militarize the frame through which AI development is understood globally.
Read full story →The Robot Tax Is Not a Solution. It's a Surrender.
OpenAI calling for robot taxes is an admission that AI will displace workers on a meaningful scale. But taxing automation to fund displaced workers doesn't restore their agency, purpose, or participation in the economy. It just makes the cage more comfortable. That is p(pets) dressed up in progressive clothing.
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