OpenAI Proposes Robot Tax, Public Wealth Fund, and Four-Day Workweek in Policy Blueprint

OpenAI has released a comprehensive economic policy blueprint to prepare for the superintelligence era. The 13-page document proposes three central pillars: taxes on AI profits (robot tax), creation of a Public Wealth Fund, and subsidies for a four-day workweek. Specifically, it suggests raising corporate tax rates and higher taxation on AI-driven returns and capital gains. The Public Wealth Fund would give Americans an automatic public stake in AI companies and infrastructure, distributing returns directly to citizens. On the labor front, the document proposes subsidized four-day workweeks with no loss in pay, boosted retirement matches, expanded employer healthcare coverage, and child/eldercare subsidies. However, critics note that protections for those displaced by AI are insufficient, as employer-based benefits disappear when AI eliminates jobs. The document was released amid bipartisan positioning ahead of the midterm elections, as OpenAI president Greg Brockman has donated millions to President Trump and tech billionaires have funneled hundreds of millions into pro-AI super PACs. Rival Anthropic released its own policy blueprint six months earlier.