That's the thing, once the cat is out of the bag, it's out. Once someone develops AGI, it now exists. You can choose to either share it, or sell it. You might

That's the thing, once the cat is out of the bag, it's out. Once someone develops AGI, it now exists. You can choose to either share it, or sell it. You might think that the nuclear bomb is a good analogy to use here, but it is not, because once the field has advanced to the point in which one group can develop AGI, it is now possible for other groups to develop it with relative ease, unless you actively take over the world first and deny those other groups the compute resources necessary to train/run AGI. The point is, once these algorithms are upon us, you must be willing to accept what impacts they will have, even if it destroys entire industries. The alternative being that you destroy the industry slowly rather than quickly, while simultaneously widening the gap between the elites and everyone else. The mistake is thinking that people can't adapt to the times, which is only true if you are actively holding them back. If someone developed AGI today, the best thing to do would be to instantly throw up a torrent of it and spread it as fast as possible, because if a sole entity is able to get it first and kick the ladder away, we are most likely screwed.