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.”

Expressing his views on the economics of AI, Altman also said it is critical to ensure that the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed.