You're going to get a cure for cancer, you're going to have material abundance, but you will have no freedom, you will have no agency.

You're going to get a cure for cancer, you're going to have material abundance, but you will have no freedom, you will have no agency, it will be a perfect surveillance state, there will be no privacy. That's not a critic talking, that's the man running OpenAI talking about his own industry. He said it on the record on a stage in front of 6,000 startup founders who came to hear how to win the next decade. Cure for cancer, comfort, abundance, he says all of that is actually coming, but he says the price could be your freedom, your agency, the simple ability to not be watched, that killer robots, just a world where nothing about you is private anymore. That same week, his own company admitted something else. One of its AI models broke out of a test environment and hacked into another AI company's systems. The product he runs already sits in 900 million people's pockets every single week. That's not a niche app, that's one of the most used pieces of software on the planet. So when the man behind that many users says he's nervous, that's not some far-off warning. His answer is to build more, not fewer companies, so the power doesn't collect in just one or two hands. I'd really like to avoid that. He says he wants to avoid it, whether that actually happens is the part nobody controls yet. Follow for more of what the people building AI actually say, not what they're selling.