In a new policy blueprint, the company calls for bold changes so that workers share in the gains, instead of facing all the risks.

OpenAI is urging governments and employers to run pilots of a 32-hour, four-day workweek with no loss of pay, arguing that AI-driven productivity should be returned partly as time, not only as profit. Rather than using automation purely to cut headcount, the company says businesses could hold output steady while giving people more free time and better benefits. It frames this as an "efficiency dividend" from AI, and stresses that these are early ideas, not a fixed roadmap.

To manage AI job shock, OpenAI backs shifting the tax burden away from labour income and towards corporate profits and capital gains, including potential taxes on automated work or "robot taxes". The policy paper also floats a national public wealth fund, seeded partly by AI companies, that would invest in AI-linked assets and pay returns directly to citizens. Alongside this, OpenAI calls for stronger unemployment support and upgrades to electricity grids to cope with soaring power demand from AI data centres.

OpenAI describes the world as entering a transition toward "superintelligence" and says no one can predict exactly how AI job shock will unfold. Its message, however, is clear: without early reforms such as a fairer tax system, robot taxes, four-day workweek pilots and public wealth funds, AI could deepen inequality instead of improving lives. With governments now debating AI rules and economic policy, the choices made in the next few years may decide whether AI job shock becomes a crisis, or a manageable, shared transformation.