OpenAI will launch an ultra-intelligent policy proposal with Spud next week, advocating to "rethink the social contract."

According to 1M AI News monitoring, next week OpenAI will partner with the launch of the new model Spud and roll out a batch of policy papers and proposals about superintelligence. The topics include industrial policy and the job displacement brought by AI, led by CEO Sam Altman, Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam, and Vice President of Global Affairs Chris Lehane.

Insiders say the proposals will involve “rethinking the social contract” and “making superintelligence serve everyone,” and some of the content may spark controversy. The goal is to pull the AI discussion out of the tech circle and into the broader public sphere. OpenAI has also just, in the past few weeks, cut Sora, exited Disney licensing, and canceled the erotic companion plan. The product division has been renamed “AGI Deployment.” Funding totaling $12.2 billion has come in, and it still plans to IPO before the end of the year. Against the backdrop of the upcoming midterm elections in mid-2026 and sluggish public approval for AI, OpenAI clearly wants to define the agenda before regulation takes shape.

However, OpenAI’s leadership hasn’t aligned itself even in AI politics. Achiam previously publicly criticized, on X, AI-friendly lobbying groups for spending money to attack New York congressional candidate Alex Bores who supports regulation, saying that this “will later be seen as a totally meaningless own goal.” This was widely interpreted as referring to OpenAI president Brockman, who is the main donor to that anti-regulation super political action committee. Calling for “rethinking the social contract” while also throwing money to suppress candidates who advocate for regulation, it’s obvious that inside OpenAI they still haven’t figured out how to deal with the government.