Article proposing industrial policy ideas to manage and guide AI development and its societal impacts.

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age | OpenAIIdeas to keep people first.Update from June 9: We’re grateful for the significant interest in Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age. After receiving more than 400 responses, we are no longer accepting additional submissions through the inbox newindustrialpolicy@openai.com and are currently reviewing potential grant recipients.As we move toward superintelligence, incremental policy updates won’t be enough. To kick-start this much needed conversation, OpenAI is offering a slate of people-first policy ideas(opens in a new window) designed to expand opportunity, share prosperity, and build resilient institutions—ensuring that advanced AI benefits everyone.These ideas are ambitious, but intentionally early and exploratory. We offer them not as a comprehensive or final set of recommendations, but as a starting point for discussion that we invite others to build on, refine, challenge, or choose among through the democratic process. To help sustain momentum, OpenAI is:welcoming and organizing feedback through newindustrialpolicy@openai.comestablishing a pilot program of fellowships and focused research grants of up to $100,000 and up to $1 million in API credits for work that builds on these and related policy ideasconvening discussions at our new OpenAI Workshop opening in May in Washington, DC.