Sam Altman Is Giving OpenAI a Makeover to Woo Democrats

OpenAI has a New Deal to sell you. On Monday, the embattled tech company released an “industrial policy” blueprint that lays out a series of progressive-sounding policy proposals meant to ease a supposedly inevitable “transition” toward something called superintelligence. The document, which espouses the company’s commitment to some of Democrats’ favorite buzzwords—like “access, agency, and opportunity”—mostly reads like a convenient artifact for OpenAI to point to in the eve...