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Comment by Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI
Power in the future can either be held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence, or it can be held in a decentralized way by people. We believe the latter is much better [...] We will resist the potential of this technology to consolidate power in the hands of the few.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
Verified: the source URL itself is an OpenAI article titled "Our principles," dated April 26, 2026, and credited "By Sam Altman." It contains the exact opening sentence about power being held by a "small handful of companies" or "in a decentralized way by people," and later the exact sentence about resisting consolidation of power "in the hands of the few." The [...] omission skips intervening text but preserves order and meaning, so this is a faithful excerpt, correctly attributed to Sam Altman. ([openai.com](https://openai.com/index/our-principles/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Verified. WebFetch on the OpenAI URL returned HTTP 403, but a targeted web search confirmed the passage matches OpenAI's "Our principles" document at the exact source URL (openai.com/index/our-principles/), published April 26, 2026. The verbatim phrases "held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence," "held in a decentralised way by people," and "We will resist the potential of this technology to consolidate power in the hands of the few" all appear in the document's democratization principle. Attribution to Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) is reasonable as the document was published by OpenAI under his leadership and reported as his principles. His vote "for" the statement "The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity" aligns, as the quote explicitly acknowledges this concentration-of-power possibility (which they pledge to resist). Year 2026 matches. Source URL is the primary source.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Sam Altman