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OpenAI launched a data portal designed to show governments, employers, and workers how generative AI is being used across the global economy.

This portal, OpenAI Signals, emerges amid rising concern about how AI is changing jobs, productivity, and skill requirements, and about how institutions respond to those shifts.

Signals draws on data from more than 800 million OpenAI users, one million business customers, and four million developers using its API, including activity related to ChatGPT.

Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer at OpenAI, said the company wants to ground policy discussions and inform workforce policy, training, and access.

“The goal is to democratize AI so today’s workers can fully access the technology’s tools, shape how it’s used on the job, and share in its economic benefits,” he explained.

Lehane also acknowledged disruption ahead, “At the same time, we’re clear-eyed about the disruption ahead. Work will change, and some jobs will be lost. Preparing workers for that reality isn’t optional; it’s essential.”

“We’ve seen what happens when America waits too long to support American workers through technological change,” Lehane wrote. “With AI, we can’t afford to repeat that mistake. Acting early is how we ensure more Americans can use these tools and share in the gains.”

OpenAI is also working with the US Department of Labor on its upcoming AI Workforce Hub, aiming to inform workforce training and AI literacy initiatives.

OpenAI is discussing potential future legislation with policymakers that could encourage AI labs to share similar data. The company plans to convene experts and stakeholders in March to discuss how workers can be better supported in an AI-driven economy.

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Palantir’s Alex Karp both delivered bleak warnings about the disruption AI could bring, fueling the AI-fear narrative.

Specifically, Altman said AI is unpopular, but it will be treated like a utility someday, one that people will pay for.

Meanwhile, Palantir’s Karp warned on CNBC of AI’s extreme societal disruption, a negative impact on “the economic and therefore political power of highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat,” while boosting the relative position of vocationally trained, working-class people (often men).

Karp framed the disruption as necessary for national security, linking AI to military superiority and to preserving U.S. power in a global tech race.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI could wipe out huge swaths of white-collar jobs. He argued that the responsible path forward is to build the most powerful AI with strong guardrails before less careful competitors do. Anthropic raised $30 billion in February at a $380 billion valuation.

Privately, several AI CEOs told Axios they’re nervous an anti-AI wave could hit hard enough to power a “ban AI” movement heading into 2028.

“They’re scaring the bejeezus out of the public,” White House AI czar David Sacks said on the “All-In Podcast,” referring to a slew of recent comments from AI CEOs.

Anyway, AI is getting scarier and more unpopular as the technology improves and elections approach.

Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters.