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Sam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else's GPUs.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly presented three possible endgames for AI safety in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled on the IAEA, a merger of major labs into one entity, or a single company powerful enough to shut down others' compute.

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“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled after the IAEA, a merger of the major labs into one entity, or a single company so powerful it could shut down everyone else's compute.”
The Decoder, 20 Oct 2026, 17:00.

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