Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly outlined three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an IAEA-style international watchdog, a merger of major labs into one entity, or one firm powerful enough to shut down everyone else's compute — an option he called 'terrible.'

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