The importance of developing open source AI

[Jannes]

Depending on the structures given by geographics and current technological progress societies naturally develop into different roles. For example hunter-gatherer were very egalitarian, not because they were developed but because sharing, living in small groups where everybody needed to share and everybody was productive naturally created much equality. In oil or mineral rich countries there is often a small elite with slave like workers because workers shouldnt be so powerful to overpower the elite. In countries with little oil and minerals average citizens are often much wealthier because thats what makes them productive. 

With unfavourable structures countries can take centuries of blood and revolution to develop the same realities which hunter-gatherer got naturally.

So it seems to be of upmost importance to work on the root and create structures which will organically create societies one wants to live in.

Well most geographical realities arent in our control and many inventions also not.

I wonder about how AI will play into that. If all the oligarchs own AI, will that naturally create a distopian world where the rich dominate?
So on the other hand might working on Open Source AI be one of the most impactful things you can do right now, as when normal citizen have AI then everybody would be kind of equal?

What do you think?