OpenAI is awarding grants to 14 independent organizations to promote economic opportunity and societal resilience as AI advances, fulfilling a commitment made in its April 2026 paper "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age." The funding includes $1 million in cash and up to $1 million in API credits distributed across projects in the US, EU, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea.
- AEI-Urban will develop scenarios for AI’s effects on employment and connect them to policy playbooks.
- CEPS will examine how AI-driven productivity gains are distributed across workers and sectors in Europe.
- ECIPE will develop a framework for a “Right to AI” and compare models like employee ownership.
- Abundance Institute will create a state policy framework for expanding energy generation for data centers.
- PPI will prototype a person-based benefits system covering retirement, health, and disability.
- Tax Foundation will analyze how AI adoption could change the balance of public revenue sources.
- Windfall Trust will scale working groups to examine fiscal and labor-market questions under different AI scenarios.
- IMPA will study what research institutions need to turn AI access into scientific progress.
- HCFMUSP will evaluate an AI-enabled clinical infrastructure prototype for Brazil’s public health system.
- IST will establish a measurement framework for recursively self-improving (RSI) AI systems.
- NTI | bio will design an architecture for secure international sharing of AIxBio risks.
- CSR will examine how national-security professionals can build capacity in frontier-AI safety.
- NTU will develop privacy-preserving LLM agents to simulate household responses to government policies.
- Yonsei University will test transparent, human-validated AI methods to assess legislative oversight quality.
These projects aim to widen the circle of people developing policy solutions, supporting independent institutions as they test new ideas and help democratic societies decide how AI can expand opportunity and strengthen resilience.