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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity
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Michael KleinmanHead of U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute; former AI policy staff at Meta and Amnesty International USAvotes For and says:
Second, if these same companies succeed in building artificial general intelligence and deploying AI agents that displace human workers at scale, we’d face catastrophic power concentration. A few tech giants would control not just information, but th...
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Daniel KokotajloAI Futures Project foundervotes For and says:
We will end up in a very concentrated world where there's like one to five giant networks of data centres owned by one to five companies, possibly in coordination with their governments. [...] If you've only got one to five companies and they each ha...
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Geoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:
I think the people who run the big tech companies — the very high up people, not all of them, but a lot of them — think we are going to get to AGI. Whoever gets there first is going to have immense power and be able to make immense profits by replaci...
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Jack ClarkAnthropic cofounder and policy researchervotes For and says:
We should expect for an increasing chunk of the economy to get colonized by a new generation of companies which are either capital-heavy (because they own a lot of computers), or opex-heavy (because they spend a lot of money on AI services which they...
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Stuart J. RussellAI Expert and Professorvotes For and says:
Whichever company develops AGI first would have a significant advantage that would then increase relative to the other companies. That company — or a small handful of companies — may control a majority of economic activity on the planet and governmen...
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