The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity

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  Satya Nadella

  Microsoft CEO

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  The last thing any of us want is a world where every company across every sector is ceding value to a few models that eat everything they see. If all the value is accrued by only a few models, the political economy will simply not tolerate it. There ...

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  A good AI future cannot be one where a small number of institutions control most of the capability and most of the upside.

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  S. Yash Kalash

  Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology, and financial services.

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  If firms own the AGI systems that automate most economic activity, they may provide stipends, dividends or services to users, effectively becoming private welfare institutions.

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  S. Yash Kalash

  Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology and financial services.

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  Those who control these assets — primarily large technology firms and a small number of states — would capture disproportionate returns, potentially concentrating wealth more intensely than during the platform economy.

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  Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative

  Initiative of the Cloud Security Alliance focused on AI safety, security, and governance.

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  The rapid commercialization of artificial intelligence has produced a market structure that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the conditions regulators spent decades trying to prevent in telecommunications and financial services: a small number o...

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  Fiona Scott Morton

  Economist and Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management.

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  The point of the piece I wrote with Susan Athey is, what if the AI is owned by somebody who has market power and is a monopolist? Then people’s wages are trending towards zero, but the goods are still expensive. That’s a world that’s really terrible ...

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  Michael Kleinman

  Head of U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute; former AI policy staff at Meta and Amnesty International USA

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  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 Kokotajlo

  AI Futures Project founder

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  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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  Lord Strasburger

  Liberal Democrat life peer

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  ASI could be controlled by a small group of humans who could use it to concentrate economic and political power, rendering most people obsolete and politically powerless.

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  Geoffrey Hinton

  Godfather of Deep Learning

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  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 Clark

  Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher

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  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. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  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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