[creato]

Even if you think this this is what OpenAI is doing, they surely don't think that. So why would he write that in his diary?

[pstuart]

I recall a comment that Sam was talking about selling AGI to the highest bidder, including hostile foreign governments, so not literally planning to destroy civilization but definitely selling it out.

And for any equivalencies of the current US regime and Russia and China, yes, that's a fair point but the implication is that they'd be selling to our enemies.