OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
01-10-2026 15:40 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it. It was one of several disputes that led […]
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