Overview

Launched in April 2026, the Windfall Policy Atlas is an initiative of Windfall Trust that identifies and organizes policy approaches governments and other decisionmakers could consider in preparing for economic disruption associated with increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI). The Atlas is designed as an evolving policy resource rather than a single report. It brings together policy proposals addressing how workers, households, businesses, governments, and institutions might respond to changes in employment, income, economic activity, and the distribution of wealth resulting from transformative AI. The Atlas can be searched and filtered according to factors including the groups affected, level of government, decisionmaker, policy area, and expected time horizon of disruption.

The Atlas organizes policy approaches into five domains:

• Global Coordination
  • Approaches involving international cooperation and coordination related to the economic effects and benefits of AI.
• Labor Market Adaptation
  • Approaches intended to help workers, employers, education systems, and workforce institutions adjust to an AI-transformed labor market.
  • Policy options include approaches related to education reform, workforce training and reskilling, apprenticeships and vocational training, wage insurance, employer incentives for training, worker bargaining, and methods for identifying workers and occupations most exposed to AI-related change.
• Public and Social Investments
  • Policies intended to support individuals and communities during economic disruption, including social protections and public investment.
• Regulation and Market Design
  • Policies addressing how AI companies, markets, intellectual property, competition, and related economic systems are structured and governed.
• Wealth Capture
  • Approaches for ensuring that some of the economic gains generated by AI contribute to broader public benefit.

Background

The Atlas was created to provide a bridge between research about AI’s potential effects on employment, income, wealth, public finances, and economic institutions and the policy choices governments and other decisionmakers may need to consider in response. Rather than functioning as a static report, the Atlas was designed as an evolving resource. At launch, it included approximately 48 policy approaches, with plans to update and expand the collection as new ideas and evidence emerge.

The Atlas is designed to complement Windfall Trust's research and scenario-planning activities. Lessons emerging from scenario exercises and other research inform the continuing development of policy options included in the Atlas.

Partners / Funders

The Windfall Policy Atlas was developed by Windfall Trust which does not identify separate funders or formal co-developers specifically for the Atlas. The Atlas is part of Windfall Trust's broader AI economic-preparedness work, which involves collaboration with organizations including the Brookings Institution, Partnership on AI, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and University of Notre Dame. Windfall also works with additional organizations through its international scenario-planning activities. These collaborations inform and complement the Policy Atlas but are not necessarily formal partnerships in development of the Atlas itself.

Windfall Trust has received funding for its broader work from several sources. In 2026, OpenAI awarded Windfall Trust a policy grant to develop national and international working groups focused on economic preparedness for AI. Public grant records also identify general-support funding for Windfall Trust through the Survival and Flourishing Fund.

Resource

https://windfalltrust.org/policy-atlas