Aidan Gomez on Slow down AI development

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer paper

A mechanism that slows everyone down while explicitly preserving existing commercial advantage does not make AI safer. It risks entrenching today’s dominant AI companies by turning their current advantages into baseline for what it takes to compete safely.

Unverified (Sep 13, 2026)

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Aidan Gomez, “Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? AI Needs Evidenced Standards, Not A Cartel,” Cohere, September 13, 2026.

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