Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. He argues we need to ensure the Western world – led by the United States – are the ones who dominate the space. Only the uncharitable would interpret Altman's call to action as him simply wanting to protect his California-based OpenAI from Chinese competition.