Bradley Johnston, PhD

OpenAI Proposes “Right to AI” Researchers from OpenAI have put forward an industrial policy for artificial intelligence and it’s quite a read. They propose a legally recognised “Right to AI”, meaning broad public access to powerful systems, backed by government-funded compute resources so researchers, startups, and public institutions can run models themselves, rather than rely on a few companies. To make this reality, they want to see an expansion of electricity supply for data centres by fast-tracking nuclear and renewables. They also suggest a national wealth fund that captures a share of AI-driven profits and redistributes it to citizens, alongside taxes or levies on highly automated systems, effectively a “robot tax”. Of course none of that has any chance of happening, but OpenAI can now claim they care about the common man.