I support opensource AGI with the following reasons:
1. It would be nearly impossible to enforce the single-AGI scenario; I think the best strategy is to start a project and try our best in it.
2. One possibility is to make the AGI software commercial, but at a very low cost, and with differential pricing for individuals vs commercial, developing vs developed countries, etc.
3. Profits could be re-distributed among researchers / programmers, and for solving social problems associated with AI. In this sense the GPL may be inappropriate because it forces the software to be freely distributable.
4. The 'safety' issue would be resolved by nations deciding that AI warfare is disastrous for the human race and thus avoiding using it for aggressive purposes. Powerful nations may build military AIs but the balance of power would prevent them from being used.
5. As for how to distribute income to "authors", simply measuring compressed lines of code would be problematic because it ignores architectures and design of algorithms, plus a lot of other things that do not manifest in coding. IMO in a "fairer" world we should reward as many people as possible who have any direct or indirect contribution towards the AGI. I think
an internal (or even external) voting system coupled with compressed-lines-of-code may be more reasonable.
YKY
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