Altman frames the deployment choice around AGI as a binary between individual empowerment (including more open-sourcing and user control) and authoritarian governments using AI for mass surveillance and population control.

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  “directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.”