Thomas Wright on Slow down AI development

Thomas Wright

Brookings Institution senior fellow in international security and former National Security Council senior director for strategic planning.

Stronger controls will help preserve America’s lead, creating the room to slow down development and ensure that new models are rigorously tested before they are released. [...] Taking safety seriously is impossible if the AI developers continue at full throttle. [...] Ensuring adequate safety of new AI models depends on slowing the race, not just between the U.S. and China, but also among the American labs.

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Thomas Wright, “The Jensen Huang Scandal Should Change Everything,” The Atlantic, November 12, 2026. Wright, a Brookings senior fellow, argues that stronger export controls would create room to slow AI development and says adequate safety depends on slowing the race among U.S. labs as well as between the United States and China.

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