In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality while allowing authoritarian governments to "control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy." OpenAI has made it its goal to realize "artificial general intelligence," the still-entirely-hypothetical point at which an AI can achieve and surpass the intellectual capabilities of a human — that "benefits all of humanity." But ensuring that the "socioeconomic value" benefits all equally may prove far more difficult, especially after AI causes countless people to lose their jobs. "In particular, it does seem […]