Altman Describes Three Potential Futures for Superintelligence: Oversight, Merger, or Market Dominance

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has outlined three starkly different scenarios for how superintelligent AI systems could be safely governed, ranging from international regulation to single-company dominance—with explicit concern about one. Speaking to OpenAI employees last week, Altman described what he called "endgames" for advanced AI development, each representing a fundamentally different approach to the challenge of controlling systems more intelligent than humanity, according to The Information.