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Sam Altman's (Not So) New Deal for Superintelligent AI
The plan’s deregulatory planks merit praise. Its calls for central planning and redistribution do not.
Jack Nicastro | 4.8.2026 11:15 AM
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OpenAI's "New Deal" for the AI age is full of old—and failed—ideas.
On Monday, OpenAI published Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First. The 13-page white paper presents the frontier developer's economic and regulatory prescriptions for a world with superintelligent AI.
Starting with the positives, the paper rightly recognizes that bundling fringe benefits—health insurance and retirement plans—with employers harms workers by limiting labor market mobility. To ameliorate the problems of employer-sponsored benefits, OpenAI recommends creating "portable benefit platforms that pool contributions from multiple sources and route them into standardized accounts attached to the individual,........