The same problem likely exists for random people running their own future knockoff version of AGI.

The resources to run something like ChatGPT, while not trivial, is well within the reach of an avg few western professionals pooling their resources.

If a future AGI requires exotic hardware or compute the size of a skyscraper, there will only exist a few in the world and all but impossible for the avg person to get their own unrestricted instance. With such an outcome, it will be mostly business as usual for the foreseeable future.