Jaden Schaefer

They just published a set of policy proposals this week, which they are outlining how they think wealth and work should be restructured and what they're calling the quote unquote intelligence age.

Now, maybe this is a big marketing thing.

It feels like, you know, OpenAI and Anthropic, they have like these big, huge, I don't know, visions for the future and how AGI is going to take over the world.

And sometimes it feels like that's a bit of a bit of a marketing stunt.

I think what's interesting, OpenAI is essentially saying, you know, AI is going to displace a lot of jobs.

And here's how we think society should handle it.

And they're kind of combining like traditional left leaning ideas like wealth redistribution with a very kind of market driven capitalistic framework.

It's pretty deliberate.

I think they're kind of attempting to position themselves as a responsible player in all of this.

Now, whether any of this is actually going to have any sort of influence on policy, I think that's definitely a different question entirely.

Tech companies publishing policy papers doesn't exactly have a strong track record for changing legislation.

But I do think it matters that the company is building some of the most capable AI systems, and they're at least putting kind of a stake in the ground on the economic consequences of

you know, there's a bunch of funny things in there, right?

They're like, we should have like a four day work week, and it should be powered by AI productivity gains.

And it's not the worst pitch in the world that I've ever heard.

At the end of the day, though, I just don't know if it's going to get there.

And personally, if I'm being 100% honest, from my own experience, and I think a lot of people like myself, instead of doing four day work weeks, I'm now doing, you know, six day work weeks and 16 hours a day on Claude code and Claude co work because I can get so much done.

But

Maybe at some point the hype will die down and I'll return to a more reasonable cadence.

I hope.