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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 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. He called the last option "terrible." The arti…

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  1. 2026-10-20 17:00 · The Decoder
    Sam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else's GPUs

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