# OpenAI Is Paying Researchers to Study Ideas That Could Become Its Own Regulations

- slug: openai-is-paying-researchers-to-study-ideas-that-could-become-its-own-regulations
- date: 2026-04-06
- category: Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI published a policy blueprint with robot taxes and a public wealth fund. But buried in it: up to $1M in API credits for researchers studying OpenAI’s own ideas, and a passage acknowledging advanced AI may become self-replicating and impossible to contain.

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