OpenAI's "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" proposes a wealth fund that pays dividends to Americans only. Built on global data, global labor, global revenue.

OpenAI has released a 13-page policy document titled 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,' outlining a vision for distributing the economic gains from artificial intelligence. The core proposal is the creation of a Public Wealth Fund, financed by AI profits, which would pay direct cash dividends to citizens. However, the document specifies that these dividends, along with other proposed benefits like expanded safety nets and pilots for a 32-hour workweek, would be exclusively for American citizens. The paper uses the phrase 'benefit everyone' multiple times but confines its concrete redistribution mechanisms to a single nation.

This national focus has sparked significant criticism, given the inherently global nature of OpenAI's operations. The company's models, like GPT-4, are trained on data scraped from the global internet. Their refinement via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) relies heavily on contractors in countries like Kenya and the Philippines. Furthermore, OpenAI's API and products generate revenue from a worldwide customer base. The policy acknowledges a need for the conversation to 'expand globally' on its final page, but offers no specific mechanisms or commitments for international wealth sharing. This disconnect has led to accusations of economic chauvinism, framing the proposal as leveraging global resources and labor to fund a domestic U.S. policy initiative.