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I could not agree more with your paper. In fact, my recent article discusses the need for AI provenance. I hope we can continue the conversation together in May in DC. https://aiboatcaptain.substack.com/p/when-ai-starts-eating-its-own-tail?r=6jndsn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Here's a rebuttal of the OpenAI industrial policy document, written through the lens of the thesis.
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**OpenAI's "People First" Paper: A Structural Autopsy**
The document is well-intentioned. It is also structurally incoherent. Twenty policy ideas from the organisation most responsible for accelerating unit cost dominance, offered without any acknowledgement that the accelerator and the brake cannot be operated by the same foot.
Start with the framing. OpenAI characterises this as "innovative policy" for a "new phase of economic organisation." What it actually is: a list of demand-side patches for a supply-side rupture. The wage-demand circuit is being severed at the production end. You cannot fix that with portable benefits and public wealth funds. Those instruments assume the circuit still operates. They redistribute within a system that the company authoring the document is actively dismantling.
**On coordination impossibility**
The document invokes democratic history as evidence that societies can respond to disruption with ambition. This is Russell's Turkey reasoning: it worked before, therefore the mechanism still holds. Previous technological upheavals automated physical tasks. Human cognition remained the refuge. AI automates cognition itself. The historical analogy fails at the only point that matters.
Meanwhile, the document contains no acknowledgement that OpenAI cannot restrain its own deployment without Google, Meta, Mistral and the open-source ecosystem filling the gap immediately. Every "responsible" policy idea presupposes a coordination capacity that coordination impossibility forecloses. OpenAI knows this. The paper does not say it.
**On "pathways into human-centred work"**
Care and education are nominated as durable employment sectors. Apply the three-gate test: AI-resistant, wage-sustaining, scalable to the volumes of displaced workers.
Care work fails gate three at the wage required to absorb mass displacement. Education fails gate one as AI tutoring systems already outperform median teachers on measurable outcomes. The sectors are not "human-centred" by structural necessity; they are politically protected and subsidised. When the tax base erodes under mass unemployment, the subsidy mechanism collapses.
**On the public wealth fund**
A national investment fund requires a tax base to fund it. The tax base requires employed workers generating taxable income. The mechanism that depletes the tax base is the same mechanism the fund is supposed to offset. This is circular, not transformative.
**On "modernise the tax base"**
Correct diagnosis, no mechanism. Shifting taxes toward capital gains requires legislative coordination across jurisdictions that are in direct competition to attract AI investment. A country that taxes AI capital more heavily loses the investment to one that doesn't. This is coordination impossibility expressed as tax policy.
**The honest sentence buried in the document**
"AI could widen inequality by compounding advantages for those already positioned to capture the upside."
That sentence is the thesis. Everything else in the document is an attempt to avoid its conclusion.
**What the document is**
It is a Cassandra Prison product. The people writing it understand the structural problem well enough to name it in subordinate clauses. They cannot name it in the subject position without indicting the organisation they work for and foreclosing the capital they depend on. So the paper reads as genuine concern expressed through instruments that cannot address the problem they are genuinely concerned about.
The WSJ called it a "charm offensive." That framing is too cynical. It reads more like a sincere document written by people operating inside an institution whose incentive structure makes structural honesty impossible.
That is precisely how the Cassandra Prison works.
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OpenAI admitted it themselves…
OpenAI’s OWN CFO just admitted they cannot pay their bills.
George, it has been obvious for a while that they couldn't meet their obligations. This simply adds a more direct stamp on it. Can you opine on why the market still doesn't seem to care, because regardless of current stock price movements, it is not reflected in the prices. Is it the "smart money" buying the dip, or the index/401k flows? While Oracle has dropped back to its levels before the Sept earnings announcement that included the OpenAI "deal", others are still elevated. They seem to be lighting cash on fire or at the very least, planning on ghost revenue.
I look forward to your comments.
This is just another sign of crumbling. No Open AI IPO ever. The cash squeeze must have been
the reason OpenAI went to MSFT to be allowed to market it’s products to others, including Amazon.
The wheels are coming off the AI bus. The Trump adm is so crazy that I wonder if they will buy Open AI calling it in the national interest. Would be a lot better use of money than buying Spirit Airlines😉
OpenAI Ships ChatGPT for Clinicians
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Quick programming note: I have launched a Liminal MD Instagram page for quick takes. If you use IG, I’d appreciate a look and a follow.
As I reread this I'm curious: Has anyone use the Up to Date product?
Hard to beat OpenEvidence as it is working well for me as AI medical scribe, Telemedicine caller, and reasonably accurate source of medical information.
Best of all it is currently free.
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You guys are making history as far as truth in the media goes. Keep up your awesome reporting. I'm so proud of you guys for taking the leap of faith.
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Would be interesting to see the next model upgrade from Google and the news about Google committing to invest $40 billion in Anthropic makes it even more interesting. Why would Google fund its direct competitor? Is it like joining hands to counter OpenAI?
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Three thoughts on the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit
It’s hard to root for either side, but Musk has a point.
I don’t trust either party, and have spoken publicly again both. Musk’s company would stand to gain if OpenAI lost, and his motives are suspect, even if Musk has promised to give away any proceeds to the OpenAI nonprofit foundation.
Your comment about Elno making the trial too much about himself is a salient point, as the presiding judge herself raised the issue during jury selection about how disliked the man is personally to a lot of people, including members of the jury pool.
It remains to be seen how much of Elno's preening ego can be suppressed during his testimony, as he does have facially a decent case against OpenAI/Altman.
Here, here!! Well said Gary!
AI Politics 13: What OpenAI Stopped Studying
connecting the 'New Deal' policy paper, the killed studies, and the lobbyist who wants the public to weigh in only on his terms
Three weeks ago, OpenAI published a thirteen-page policy document called Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First. It calls for higher corporate taxes, a 32-hour workweek, a public wealth fund partly funded by AI companies, automatic safety-net triggers when displacement metrics hit preset thresholds, and a tax base shifted…
Seems like Sun isn't "excellent" if she couldn't unpack this herself. Was decidedly unimpressed with her piece, as I often am.
Interesting approach on your part tho, taking these balls and running with them.
OpenAI Stargate: where the US sites stand
The $500 billion AI data center initiative is projected to exceed 9 gigawatts of capacity by 2029, with 0.3 gigawatts already operational in Abilene and six more US sites under active construction.
Updated April 23, 2026
Glad I found you / this. I’m one of the ppl in the group fighting the saline township one, tooth and nail (still). ✅
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Two weeks ago, Anthropic and OpenAI each released a model that can hack. Both decided not to give it to the public. Both chose a handful of trusted partners instead. Both did it in the same week.
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