OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
THE SO WHAT
The reported 2017 idea of auctioning future AGI rights to governments—including China and Russia—shows how fluid governance thinking was even inside frontier labs. For policymakers and operators, the lesson is to treat current alignment and access frameworks as contingent and worth stress-testing, not settled doctrine.
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