Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling, lawsuits and now a near $100 billion bid from Musk for OpenAI.

In a new essay on his personal blog, Sam Altman admits that AI's benefits may not be widely distributed — at least not at first.

As such, Altman said the company’s mission now is focused “more towards individual empowerment” as it works toward AGI, while making efforts to prevent such systems from being used by authoritarian governments to “control their population through mass surveillance” and forestall the “loss of autonomy.”

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, emphasizes the critical distribution of AGI benefits, noting its increasing problem-solving capabilities. He highlights thr

"Moore's law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger," Altman wrote in a blog post on Sunday.