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He also notes that high-level discussions within AI firms have involved intense debates among key figures—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman—about who controls the company and the future of AI. The founders' original intent was to avoid creating an AI dictatorship, but current developments suggest that powerful individuals or entities could soon wield disproportionate control over superintelligent systems.
The Race for Superintelligence and Its Risks
The desire for dominance in AI is fueling an international race, now centered primarily between the United States and China. Companies aim to develop superinteligent systems that will outperform humans at all tasks—codes, research, strategy, and innovation—within a remarkably short timeframe, sometimes as little as a year.