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Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI Blog · 2026-06-09

OpenAI publishes a policy framework advocating people-first industrial policy for the AI era, emphasizing expanded opportunity, broadly shared prosperity, and resilient institutions.

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Topics: ai-policyindustrial-policyai-governanceeconomic-impact-of-ai

Claims

  • Advanced AI requires new industrial policy frameworks distinct from prior technology waves.
  • AI-era policy should prioritize expanding opportunity for broad populations, not just technology incumbents.
  • Prosperity generated by AI should be actively shared rather than concentrated.
  • Existing institutions need to be made more resilient as advanced intelligence evolves.

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Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.