Industrial Policy
for the Intelligence Age:
Ideas to Keep People First
April 2026
Let’s Talk
The drive to understand has always powered human progress—creating a
flywheel from science to technology, from technology to discovery, and from
discovery onward to more science. That inexorable forward movement led us
to melt sand, add impurities, structure it with atomic precision into computer
chips, ru...
This document presents a thoughtful and ambitious attempt to frame the governance of superintelligence as a collective, democratic challenge rather than a technological inevitability. At its strongest, it acknowledges the dual-edged nature of AI—its potential to unlock unprecedented prosperity alongside risks of disruption, misuse, and power concentration. The proposal’s emphasis on worker agency, portable benefits, and public wealth funds reflects a genuine effort to preempt the inequalities th...