Altman reportedly told staff the superintelligence race could end in an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one firm dominating via recursive self-improvement.
Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees there are three plausible endings to the race to build superintelligence: an International Atomic Energy Agency-style inspector that would audit frontier labs, a merger of the leading labs into a single CERN-like entity, or one firm pulling so far ahead through recursive self-improvement that it could 'melt everyone else's GPUs.'