AI Giants Go on Charm Offensive to Avert Public Backlash

By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Published on April 07, 2026

Artificial-intelligence companies appear to be organizing around a simple message in the face of rising public anxiety about the negative potential effects of their world-changing technology: We come in peace.

OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zeroes in on worries like job replacement and wealth concentration, floating such ideas as a four-day workweek and an AI-invested public-wealth fund distributed to citizens.

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