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Sam Altman has spent the past several years building the technology that many workers fear will eliminate their jobs. Now, in a 13-page policy document published on 6 April 2026, he is arguing that the same technology should be used to give those workers an extra day off every week — without docking their pay. The proposal is one piece of a sweeping economic blueprint that OpenAI has sent to Washington under the title "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First," and it sits alongside calls for higher taxes on capital gains, a levy on automated labour, and the creation of a national public wealth fund that would give every American citizen a financial stake in AI-driven growth. Whether one reads it as a genuine act of social conscience or a carefully timed intervention to shape the regulatory environment before regulators shape OpenAI, the document has landed at a moment when the politics of artificial intelligence are shifting fast. The four-day week argument, as Altman frames it, is not really about leisure. It is about what he calls "efficiency dividends" — the productivity gains that AI is already delivering to companies, and which he believes employers and unions should convert into concrete improvements in working conditions rather than simply pocketing as profit. The logic is straightforward: if a team of five can now accomplish in four days what previously required five, the question is who captures that surplus. OpenAI's answer is that workers should, in the form of time. The document stops short of recommending legislation to mandate the shorter week; instead, it proposes that the government incentivise companies to pilot the arrangement with a view to making it permanent, in the same way that tax credits and subsidies have historically been used to steer corporate behaviour toward socially desirable ends. Altman is not the first technology chief to float the idea. JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon has said he believes AI will eventually compress the working week to three and a half days, and improve quality of life in ways that go well beyond the office — including, in his more expansive moments, the possibility of curing some cancers. Bill Gates, speaking to Jimmy Fallon not long ago, raised the prospect of a two- or three-day working week as AI takes over more of the tasks humans currently perform. Jensen Huang of Nvidia has said a four-day week is "probably" coming, though he has also suggested that the same forces will make the people who remain in work busier than ever. What distinguishes Altman's contribution is that it arrives not as an off-the-cuff prediction in a television interview but as a formal policy recommendation from the organisation that is, by most measures, furthest along in building the systems that would make it possible.