Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI staff of three AI endgames: an IAEA-style regulator, a CERN-like lab merger, or one lab using RSI to "melt everyone else's GPUs" (The Information) — SkimNews
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- Sam Altman told OpenAI staff "last week" about three industry-discussed proposals for safely developing advanced AI, describing them as possible long-term "endgames," according to sources.
- The three scenarios include an IAEA-style regulatory body, a CERN-like merger of AI research labs, and one lab using RSI to "melt everyone else's GPUs."
Why it matters: The RSI scenario — one lab pulling so far ahead on recursive self-improvement that it overwhelms rivals' hardware — gives concrete shape to the abstract AI race-dynamics debate, and that Altman raised it internally suggests OpenAI is treating these outcomes as strategic planning inputs rather than dismissing them as remote.
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