> surely it's better to have distributed AGI than to have AGI only in the hands of the elites This is not a given. If your threat model includes "Runaway compe

> surely it's better to have distributed AGI than to have AGI only in the hands of the elites This is not a given. If your threat model includes "Runaway competition that leads to profit-seekers ignoring safety in a winner-takes-all contest", then the more companies are allowed to play with AI, the worse. Non-monopolies are especially bad. If your threat model doesn't include that, then the same conclusions sound abhorrent and can be nearly guaranteed to lead to awful consequences. Neither side is necessarily wrong, and chances are good that the people behind the first set of rules would agree that it'll lead to awful consequences — just not as bad as the alternative.