The AI Companies Are Talking About the Safety Net. Nonprofits Should Be in That Conversation.
Last week, OpenAI released a policy document titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” If you work in the nonprofit sector, it is worth a close read.
The document calls for a public wealth fund to share AI’s economic gains more broadly, fast-response safety net programs to support workers who lose jobs to automation, and investment in job training to help people find their footing as industries change. The document also calls for major investment in the electrical grid to power all of this technology. That will affect communities too, particularly those that host large data centers or deal with rising energy costs. But for this post, we are focusing on the workforce and safety net pieces, because that is where nonprofits are most directly positioned to act.