>The winner or winners in the AGI race, they believe, will find the proverbial "pot of gold at the end of the rainbow."

The hubris of this is really astounding too. There is no technology out there that some company develops and has not been reverse engineered and copied and manufactured at scale by competitors before long. You can't stop this from happening. People will leave the company or be poached and proliferate what they have built in the past. Every country that wanted a nuke has a nuke, after all.

The only way to keep the secret fire from leaking out would be to have AGI's first move be to lock the doors and prevent anyone from ever leaving company property again.