An individual discovers a potential path to AGI and faces an ethical dilemma about whether to share, publish, patent, or withhold the breakthrough technology.

Open-sourcing AGI would democratize access but risk enabling both altruistic and malicious actors to deploy the technology

Publishing research papers carries similar risks to open-sourcing by making the algorithm publicly available to anyone

Sharing with tech companies or governments presents trade-offs between corporate profit motives and state control versus preventing the discovery from disappearing

Withholding the technology entirely could delay progress but doesn't prevent others from independently rediscovering the same AGI breakthrough

The discoverer faces a no-win scenario where every option—open source, publication, corporate partnership, government sharing, or secrecy—carries significant ethical consequences