Sam Altman says one of his biggest fears is that a small number of companies will control AI: 'That'd be very, very bad'

Sam Altman warns of "AI authoritarianism" — his biggest fear is a few companies or countries controlling powerful AI and eroding liberty.
The open-source release of China's Kimi K3 reignited a debate over how much access the public (and rivals) should have to frontier models and whether some models should be restricted.
Most big tech firms urged against restricting open-source AI, while Anthropic notably declined to join that push, highlighting a split on openness vs. caution.