They are never in a million years going to release AGI to the public. They’ll bury it deep in a vault at the Pentagon where only the Federal Government can use it.
Or the billionaire class. Black Rock and their ilks will undoubtedly have the most advanced AI.
Firstly, AGI won’t be a sudden leap forward, making it easy for the government to intervene and seize control. Instead, AI will gradually evolve into AGI—and it’s already nearing that point in advanced labs.
If companies like OpenAI anticipate the government perceiving their AI as too powerful and consider a takeover, the company may downplay its AI platform’s capabilities, making it seem far less powerful than it truly is.
However, there’s a significant risk that a future authoritarian government—especially if certain Marxist ideologies gain influence—might attempt to control all AI. This could happen not just because AI is a powerful tool, but because it facilitates free speech, including speech that challenges or exposes the truth about the government. Such speech would be a threat to totalitarian regimes.
BTW, I asked ChatGPT what it thought of the above comment. Its response was that, as an AI platform, it couldn’t disagree with it.;-)
As an aside, it did try to argue that Marxism doesn’t necessarily mean an authoritative government. I disagreed with it and asked it to give me one Marxist country—just one—that hasn’t had an authoritative government and it politely apologized and admitted that it couldn’t name a single country.
Anyone who seriously believes we're anywhere near even a rudimentary version of an actual autonomous, intelligent machine is not living in reality.