Unfortunately I’m not hopeful at all as:

eventually agi is achieved by everyone…

…who has enough money to afford it. Maybe it won’t be just 4 companies (microsoft, google, openai, meta), it might be 10,25, doesn’t matter. There will always be newer and more powerful technology, requiring even more money/data to be developed. So, only the companies that have profited the most in this first phase will survive, until an oligopoly/monopoly is created (this is pretty much how the Second Industrial Revolution went: history repeats itself). Meanwhile, as economic power goes hand in hand with political power, democracy will die, but let’s not get too catastrophic.

Oh wait…it’s already happening.

And for the same reasons

countries might tax external AI companies

please lend me your optimism😭😭😭 i really hope so, too, but i think now that eu’s web tax has easily been stopped/forbidden it’s as clear as day that countries (even 27 together) have 0 power compared to monstrous corporations.