I truly don’t think LLMs can ever reach AGI given how they fundamentally work and we don’t have any paradigm shift in the tech yet which can pave the way for true AGI, but I digress. Hypothetically if AGI is ever reached, do you guys think any government would allow unrestricted access to everyone? At that point it would no longer be just about writing code or getting answers to anything by prompting. We are talking about systems that could impact geopolitics, economies, cybersecurity, warfare, intellectual property and entire industries. Also, even as LLMs are getting powerful, first Fable 5, now GPT 5.6 and the game is heading in a direction of tighter control, blocking foreign access and highly regulating domestic access to make sure that select FEW national companies and national security stay on top and not dethroned by outsiders and foreign bodies. Anthropic freaked out because Alibaba had 25k accounts distilling fable possibly to build their own models. These can lead to foreign countries ending up with more powerful systems with the help of American models. Given where it is headed with how this is playing out, maybe the longterm answer is for countries/local industries to develop their own models and progress instead of being at the mercy of US government/US companies because companies who have access to american frontier models will have unfair advantage over those who don’t have it and US (and countries in general) is well within their rights to decide which path they want to take. This is exactly like military/nuclear race and countries developing their own military capabilities so that they don’t have to rely on someone else to protect them and exert their dominance. Also, opensource models won’t have the money/research capabilities to match companies like OpenAI (with government backing) and Anthropic (who used to have gov. backing). Looks like this would be the same story from here on with every new model release from Antrhopic or OpenAI where it won’t be released to masses and rolled out internally within government approved authorities. All we would get with every release are breadcrumbs highlighting how POWERFUL and dangerous those models are without ever getting our hands on them. And/if the general public ever get those models, those would be HEAVILY nerfed anyways so we won’t get their full capabilities. submitted by /u/simple_explorer1
Originally posted by u/simple_explorer1 on r/ClaudeCode