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It ends with him saying his ultimate goal is to funnel the worlds wealth into a non profit, then redistribute it. Kind of terrifying that the future of the world relies on one guy, basically.

I wonder if in his contracts with microsoft, there's a clause saying openAI will never go open source.

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Quoting the article:

> His grand idea is that OpenAI will capture much of the world’s wealth through the creation of A.G.I. and then redistribute this wealth to the people. In Napa, as we sat chatting beside the lake at the heart of his ranch, he tossed out several figures — $100 billion, $1 trillion, $100 trillion.

> If A.G.I. does create all that wealth, he is not sure how the company will redistribute it. Money could mean something very different in this new world.

> But as he once told me: “I feel like the A.G.I. can help with that.”

If they do end up creating AGI that captures much of the worlds wealth. Do you think governments around the world will say “well shit, that Sammy A he really figured out this whole AGI business, let’s just let him run the whole world”?

Doesn’t seem likely to me.

> Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, explained Mr. Altman’s motivation like this:

> “Why is he working on something that won’t make him richer? One answer is that lots of people do that once they have enough money, which Sam probably does. The other is that he likes power.”

Reminds me of something Matt Levine (who else?) wrote: “One deep theme of this column is that “greed” is overrated as a driver of bad behavior. People who want to make a lot of money are fine, as people go; it’s the people who want power that you should worry about.”