OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning rights to future AGI to governments including the US, China, and Russia as a fundraising strategy. The plan faced internal opposition, notably from Dario Amodei, and was dropped after Microsoft funding. Amodei later left OpenAI to found Anthropic amid disputes.