OpenAI API access is already more valuable than money; concentrated AGI is the danger
Where Crypto and AI Meet | Featuring Akash, Bittensor, Gensyn & DCG (April 26, 2023) (The Bittensor Hub)
“If you go to a hackathon in San Francisco, your biggest prize is API credits — that’s more valuable than money. Access to OpenAI API is more valuable than money right now… if you say the wrong thing, a wrong prompt, your access gets cut. So one company controlling that — is that the future that you want, or do you want the future where all of us have a say?” — 00:30:08
Context: Discussion of AGI concentration risk; Greg (a frequent SF hackathon attendee, per his later remarks) adds that anyone who builds AGI has “no incentive to release it to the world.” Captions not diarized — attribution based on the hackathon reference matching Greg’s later statements.