The OpenAI Foundation is committing an initial $250M to grants, partnerships, and direct work focused on how AI is reshaping the economy and how to support workers through the transition. The money will fund three areas: independent measurement and forecasting of AI's economic effects, including funding for labor-market data infrastructure modeled on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; near-term support for displaced workers, including job search assistance, expanded unemployment and wage-loss insurance, and retraining pilots; and longer-term work on how AI's economic gains get distributed, including studying proposals to shift taxation from labor to capital, windfall mechanisms, and public wealth funds modeled on Norway's Government Pension Fund and Alaska's Permanent Fund. The first initiatives are expected later this year.
