> I’m quite skeptical of Elon Musk being on the board for OpenAI

Plenty of reason to be skeptical indeed, because he isn't! Hasn't been for almost half a decade.

> there are efforts to make the singularity awful for everyone by people lobbying to ban the use of AI for some things like art, but let’s be honest, the rich will still be able to use it, just not the general population

This has some plausibility, but let me throw a couple of random points at it:

It depends on the government being really awful. Which it is, but only so awful, and generally less so in liberal societies. Governments might do things like kill babies by banning parenteral nutrition with a healthy distribution of fatty acids, but most didn't ban cellphones, the Internet, CRISPR, etc..

Also: These days governments have foresight in the sense that they might well ban things ahead of time, preventing even the rich from getting them. For instance, maybe you saw that recent story about trying to finally get the FDA to allow aging to be treated as a disease. If you're considering working on an aging treatment, and you are greedy, you want to sell it to everyone; but if the government says you won't be allowed to sell it to anyone, then what you do won't be that you will work on it and then only sell it to rich people, you just won't work on it at all.