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OpenAI's Pre-Apology for the AI Jobs Crisis
OpenAI published a 13-page policy paper on April 7, 2026 — the same morning The New Yorker published a 1.5-year investigation into Sam Altman's trustworthiness on AI safety. This episode reads OpenAI's proposals not as forward-looking policy, but as a pre-apology for disruption that is already underway and already documented.
In this episode:
What OpenAI is actually proposing: a four-day work week, a Public Wealth Fund, a robot tax, worker voice mechanisms, and mandatory AI safety auditing
How each proposal maps to a specific, documented harm — including 60,000 job cuts in March alone and…
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