Almost everyone today is assuming all of the requisite variety will be within a particular AI model.

Which means that if it's not your model that absorbs all of the requisite variety, then you're out of luck.

There's only one entity with any power in that end-game.

Another approach: assume that the requisite variety will be around models.

That is, that there will be a whole ecosystem of things that are enabled by using the model (or a collection of them).

This latter approach might permit an open outcome where no one entity dominates.

This approach creates open-endedness in the overall system that eclipses what any single model can do.

If this other approach turns out to be wrong, and there's one AI model that emerges as the AI god-emperor, well, everything's sucked into that reality anyway, and you were extremely unlikely to have been the creator of it.

So why not try to induce the alternative approach?

If you succeed, there's a more open ecosystem of creativity and value creation.

If you fail, it's the same as if you hadn't tried.

(Note that this argument smuggles in an infinity, because of the implied omnipotence of the single winner model in the former situation).