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altman sounds the alarm: ai could destabilize the economy

cartoon of sam altman as a sweating surgeon operating on a body wired with an ai chip and dollar bills, error screen behind big tech

sam altman is warning that ai could destabilize the economy if governments don’t act — and is proposing new rules to handle it

we read @OpenAI's policy document and found key risks for founders if these proposals go live:

1/ if your pitch is "replace 10 people with one agent" - your unit economics just got a policy risk. the cost advantage of automation is about to get taxed

2/ the era of AI profits staying inside cap tables is ending. If you're planning an exit or raise - future policy will change how returns get distributed. not hypothetical anymore

3/ your product's job impact is no longer a PR talking point - it's a measurable policy input. governments will track it and investors will ask about it

4/ if governments push AI toward utility pricing - just wrapping an API isn't a business anymore. Your margins depend on someone else's pricing, and that pricing is now a policy target heading down. you need something that's actually yours.

5/ if you're building with the most advanced AI models - expect new rules, new costs, and governments watching a lot closer.

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Addy Crezee

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief at thehype. Addy is a serial entrepreneur building products and communities since 2014. In 2024, he founded /function1, one of the largest AI conferences in the world, scaling from 0 to 10k attendees in its first year.

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