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Slow down AI development

Key insights

Many quotes on all sides support some form of safety governance, but they differ on whether safety requires slower capability growth or can be achieved alongside continued acceleration.
Several supportive quotes focus specifically on frontier, self-improving, or AI-for-AI-research systems, while several opposing quotes answer the broader idea of a general pause or moratorium.
International coordination is a recurring theme, with backers treating it as necessary for effective pacing and critics treating it as too hard to verify or sustain.
The quotes disagree about who should act first: some say companies can slow down on their own, while others say competitive incentives make government rules or global agreements indispensable.
Some supporters emphasize that leading labs are asking for help to pace development, while some critics argue that slowdown rhetoric can advantage firms that already have a head start.

Arguments for

Safety before scaling

Supporters say capability development should not outrun the ability to manage risk. Before training substantially more capable systems, they want stronger testing, oversight, and evidence that advanced models can remain under human control and make safe choices.

Capability development should not outrun our ability to manage risks and complexities.

James Manyika · Oct 5, 2026 · full quote
Before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

David Robinson · Oct 3, 2026 · full quote
Frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people from serious harm. We should immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.

Elizabeth Warren · Sep 16, 2026 · full quote
We should also slow down their development until we find a way to make this technology safe and channel its power towards the goals we truly have as a society.

Pedro Sánchez · Sep 25, 2026 · full quote
But the development of frontier AI models must take place at a pace that enables us to retain control. The technology must be safe, must comply with established regulations and must be used in line with international law. AI technology must remain under human direction and we mus…

Jonas Gahr Støre · Sep 21, 2026 · full quote
Frontier AI development should move at the pace of our ability to keep it safe, not just what’s technically possible. The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident earlier this year proved that to keep AI safe, we need visibility into what’s happening within leading AI companies. As developer…

Brad Carson · Sep 12, 2026 · full quote

Prevent loss of control

Another case for slowing down is the fear that self-improving or misaligned systems could become uncontrollable, enable powerful hacking, or otherwise cause catastrophic harm. From this perspective, even relatively small chances of such outcomes are unacceptable, so the frontier should halt until those dangers are addressed.

The solution as I see it is simple. We stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.

Alex Turner · Oct 7, 2026 · full quote
I don’t know — I also don’t think it matters whether it’s 1% or 10% or 20% chance that something catastrophic will go wrong. None of these levels is remotely acceptable. We should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we can keep under human control.

Morgan Dwyer · Oct 5, 2026 · full quote
As the frontier models become more capable, these risks have come more sharply into focus. Models being developed will allow hacking on a level we never thought possible. And they will soon be in the hands of adversaries who see the world very differently from us. At the same tim…

Ursula von der Leyen · Sep 16, 2026 · full quote
The right-now policy conclusion is the same for both types of misalignment: We need an immediate halt to all efforts to push the AI frontier further.

Jonah Blank · Oct 1, 2026 · full quote
This past weekend, the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, announced that his company would be taking voluntary steps to slow the pace of development as a result of growing worries about model capabilities. It’s a start, but it’s not nearly enough. Given the dangers that self-improv…

Emily Otto · Sep 15, 2026 · full quote
Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.

Jacob Coxon · Sep 9, 2026 · full quote

Escape race dynamics

Many backers argue that market and geopolitical incentives reward speed, so durable pacing needs shared safety bars, government action, and international coordination or enforcement. Some also reject the idea that this is purely a coordination problem, saying firms can choose to slow down even before a broader deal is in place.

AI needs regulating because its harms are severe, hard to undo, borne by people who never chose them and sometimes invisible until they arrive. [...] The market will not fix this alone, because the incentives reward speed and capability, and even the people at the top of the indu…

Andrew Charlton · Oct 8, 2026 · full quote
Slowing the pace of this technology is important, but it needs to be [regulated] across governments, and we need enforcement across countries for it to work.

Pip White · Sep 25, 2026 · full quote
We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.

Pacing the Frontier · Jul 28, 2026 · full quote
Individual firms may prefer a slower and safer race, but competitive pressure makes it difficult for any one company to slow down on its own.

Wioletta Dziuda · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
If we can, maybe it would be good to have a bit of a slightly slower pace than we're currently predicting, even my timelines, so that we can get this right societally. But that would require some coordination.

Demis Hassabis · Jan 23, 2026 · full quote
If you’re doing a very dangerous thing, you should just slow down. The AI companies are overplaying the extent to which this is a pure coordination problem. They could just stop unilaterally.

Geoffrey Irving · Oct 2, 2026 · full quote

Time for institutions

Supporters also describe pacing as a way to buy time for alignment research, laws, public oversight, and social adaptation. In this framing, slowing the frontier is not a rejection of AI's benefits but a deliberate effort to let communities and institutions keep up with a rapidly advancing technology.

Pacing is an attempt to buy time: to keep capability from outrunning understanding and control. [...] These are risks in the design of pacing, not reasons to abandon it.

Niamh Teather · Oct 2, 2026 · full quote
If you delay the advent of superintelligence, then that gives society more time to prepare and more time to solve the various problems that it represents.

Daniel Kokotajlo · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

Anthropic Institute · Jun 2026 · full quote
There are a lot of potentially good outcomes from AI. I think the most likely outcomes are good. But the risk of bad and even catastrophic outcomes is high enough to be worth taking seriously. We should actively build safety mechanisms in case we need them to prevent the worst po…

Nate Kratzer · Jul 2026 · full quote
What is needed is a more active political involvement that is capable of slowing things down when everything is accelerating, and of protecting the opportunities for communities still to be able to participate and ask questions.

Pope Leo XIV · May 15, 2026 · full quote
The pause would be used to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with AI advances.

Marina Favaro · Jun 5, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Protect strategic leadership

Opponents argue that AI development is a global race and that slowing one country or bloc while others continue would be irresponsible. They say leadership matters, zero-risk standards would amount to losing, and rivals should not be allowed to set the pace.

One of the biggest risks was “not being first,” and it would be irresponsible for the US to back away from AI as other countries advance.

Jay Clayton · Oct 5, 2026 · full quote
AI has been so helpful in medical research and protecting our troops from drone swarms or missile attacks… so we need to keep moving forward. If we pause, we're not going to see China pause.

Joni Ernst · Sep 30, 2026 · full quote
We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyper-regulate this, because we'll lose the race to China. The innovation is important to continue, but we have to strike the right balance. That's what the conversation is going to be about.

Mike Johnson · Sep 28, 2026 · full quote
Let’s remember we’re in a global race. It’s imperative the United States wins this race. And for those who assert that we should somehow slow down is nonsense. This is about continuing to move as quickly as possible because we are in a race. The bronze or silver medal is not good…

Steve Daines · Sep 15, 2026 · full quote
Zero risk means we lose. If that’s the game we’re going to play, we will lose. Managing the risk responsibly, that's right on. Winning the race, I think, is an imperative.

Jodey Arrington · Sep 26, 2026 · full quote
We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I’m going to keep it that way! I’m not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself.

Donald J. Trump · Sep 21, 2026 · full quote

Avoid delaying benefits

Critics also say AI is already helping with urgent tasks and has the potential to make societies safer and more productive. On this view, slowing progress would postpone valuable uses and could lead to preventable harms by keeping better tools out of reach.

AI doomers say if we build AI we might die. But they have it backwards. [...] AI is helping us solve these. Slowing progress doesn’t keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.

Brian Armstrong · Sep 23, 2026 · full quote
We see that global narrative on why development of these models needs to slow down until you have the right governance and measures in place. In Egypt, we are far from thinking with the same lens. We have a much more important lens to look through, which is: How are we able to us…

Bassem Fayek · Oct 8, 2026 · full quote
It’s not time to slow down but to accelerate! The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture! If we work hard at it, AI will make the world safer, not less safe, just as most major technolo…

Clément Delangue · Sep 2026 · full quote
We cannot slow down the development of AI. But we will not leave its outcomes to chance. We will work hard to secure a different deal, between the companies that prosper here and the workers whose effort makes that prosperity possible. Where companies benefit from operating and g…

Jasmin Lau · May 6, 2026 · full quote
AI has been so helpful in medical research and protecting our troops from drone swarms or missile attacks… so we need to keep moving forward. If we pause, we're not going to see China pause.

Joni Ernst · Sep 30, 2026 · full quote
We are leading now over China, and everyone else, and I’m going to keep it that way! I’m not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself.

Donald J. Trump · Sep 21, 2026 · full quote

Pause is unworkable

Another objection is that a coordinated slowdown is unlikely to hold in a competitive market and even harder to verify across decentralized computing and global research activity. Because not everyone will pace themselves, critics see broad pauses as impractical rather than protective.

I think this is unrealistic. I think not everybody is going to pace themselves.

Nikesh Arora · Sep 25, 2026 · full quote
This would be practically impossible, because the economic and national security stakes are simply too high for any superpower to willingly hit the brakes now. [...] Tracking decentralized computing resources, private data centers and algorithmic research globally is far more dif…

Rob Enderle · 2026 · full quote
We tend to take a very textured approach to all that sort of thing. Will we slow down? No, we won't. There's no logical world where I think that happens.

Mike Cannon-Brookes · Oct 10, 2026 · full quote
If you want to build a frontier model in a very competitive space, you need to do this quickly.

Robin Rombach · Sep 27, 2026 · full quote
I have been arguing for tech and AI regulation for years. It seems like something almost everyone agrees on, but no one can figure out how to broadly implement it. Instead, we get piecemeal bits from local municipalities and Executive Orders. Slowdowns or pauses are not necessari…

Lance Ulanoff · 2026 · full quote

Safeguards without slowdown

Some opponents favor oversight, safety-by-design, and practical safeguards while rejecting moratoria. They argue that governance should shape how AI is built and used rather than halt progress, and that slowdown proposals can advantage incumbents or confuse corporate self-interest with public virtue.

The AI industry does not need a slowdown showdown staged by companies that already got their head start. It needs honest competition, practical safeguards, and governance that does not confuse corporate self-interest with public virtue.

David Linthicum · Oct 7, 2026 · full quote
Indonesia certainly agrees - not necessarily with slowing down AI itself, but with the need to implement 'safety by design' for AI more cautiously, a process that inevitably takes time.

Meutya Hafid · Oct 8, 2026 · full quote
Well, government should make sure there's enough oversight to ensure safety. That's not saying we should slow down AI development in the West or in the US.

Vinod Khosla · Sep 21, 2026 · full quote
But we didn’t pause development and permanently mandate that they couldn’t go faster than horses. Eventually—after trial and error—we developed better and safer cars, as well as road safety laws to prevent accidents, and legal provisions like driver’s licences to ensure a minimum…

John Aziz · Sep 4, 2026 · full quote
Let's all take a moment to understand how self-serving it is for OpenAI, Anthropic and other execs of big hyperscalers to talk of slowing things down. [...] Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents.

Michael Burry · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Set future trigger points

Several undecided voices do not endorse an immediate broad pause, but want governments and labs to define the threat levels that would justify slowing the frontier and to build the capacity to act before a crisis. They emphasize agreed criteria, working groups, and the option to pace development if risks intensify.

Governments must assume their responsibilities. It is the first responsibility of any government to protect its citizens – including from the threats of artificial intelligence. National action is essential. But global coordination is also indispensable. Because AI does not stop …

António Guterres · Sep 16, 2026 · full quote
The analysis urges the United States and China to work toward five goals: Establishing an “AI red phone” for urgent safety concerns. Defining “genuine security threat” from frontier AI that would impel steps to pace the frontier in the future. Announcing a working group and date …

Center for American Progress · Sep 10, 2026 · full quote
Overall, I’m sympathetic to Plan A. The basic logic of the plan is sound: we will need to slow down AI progress at some point; this is a concrete plan for doing that. [...] But currently I lean towards starting with software scaling.

Tom Davidson · Jul 10, 2026 · full quote
While I don't believe the pace of current AI capabilities development is *yet* dangerous, it's important to have the option to slow down in case we need it. Further, accelerating AI R&D over the next couple years could make the pace of progress dangerous. I've seen how the relent…

Jeremy Hadfield · Jul 2026 · full quote
Much more clarity will be needed on what is meant by the “ability to deliberately pace the frontier of AI development”, but I am supportive of international cooperation to define this.

Lauren Deason · Jul 2026 · full quote
I don't know what form such tools should take, nor whether automated AI R&D is the right or only thing that the U.S. government should develop increased capacity to understand and possibly pace, but this is worth serious consideration; however I hope such governance tools will no…

Joshua Achiam · Jul 2026 · full quote

Design verifiable mechanisms

Other nuanced views stress that any slowdown would need rigorous auditing, verification, and careful institutional design. They warn that isolated or hastily designed pauses could fail, concentrate power, or impose costs that must be weighed against the benefits of delay.

First, [companies] could voluntarily invite rigorous, independent auditing of their safety and security practices. [...] If an AI slowdown is needed, auditing would also reassure each company that their competitors are playing by the rules. [...] Third, they could invest in the t…

Miles Brundage · Aug 21, 2026 · full quote
Many proposals for a slowdown or pause concentrate power — they centralize control of AI into a few hands and leave us worse off. I think we can do better. I’m signing because I believe we may need mechanisms to coordinate AI progress in the future, and inventing it in a crisis i…

Luke Drago · Jul 2026 · full quote
I believe that attempting to deliberately pace AI development will be extremely difficult, and could do more harm than good if done without proper care. However, I am signing this statement because, if an attempt at pacing does occur, it would be better for it to have been method…

Danny Sawyer · Jul 2026 · full quote
But even in settings that assume significant idealization, the fact that pauses can incur ongoing background existential risk means that very high absolute standards here can lead us astray: the decision to pause or unpause needs to remain attentive to marginal costs and benefits…

Joe Carlsmith · Mar 19, 2026 · full quote
I'm not sure that pauses don't work. I think labs are begging for what they call pacing. So it's not about a technology pause, but it's about a pause for governance.

Ellen Goodman · Sep 2, 2026 · full quote
Misalignment is a still-unsolved technical problem, as the Hugging Face incident made clear, and it will only be amplified by more intelligent models. Solving the alignment problem may require a global slowdown of the frontier, including internal deployment. The world should have…

Ryan Kaufman · Jul 2026 · full quote

Across the quotes, many speakers call for stronger safeguards, but they part ways on whether those safeguards require a slower frontier. Supporters argue that pacing is needed to keep control, develop alignment and oversight, and reduce race pressures, while opponents stress strategic competition, present-day benefits, and the difficulty of enforcing any pause. More conditional positions focus on defining thresholds and building verification tools before any slowdown is attempted.

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Pragya Misra
Head of Strategy & Global Affairs, India at OpenAI; public-policy and AI-governance leader.

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We have slowed down reinforcement learning and training runs because we do believe that safety should be of utmost priority. Of course, we want to hit AGI as soon as possible and we want to get there first. But we also want to make sure that AGI bene...
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The leaders of the AI industry have told us, in their own words, that the stakes are as high as they can be. They themselves should stop their mad rush forward, and Congress should take the companies at their word and act with urgency.
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There is indeed a strong case for reducing the pace of AI development.
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Australian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy

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AI needs regulating because its harms are severe, hard to undo, borne by people who never chose them and sometimes invisible until they arrive. [...] The market will not fix this alone, because the incentives reward speed and capability, and even the...
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Alex Turner
AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.

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The solution as I see it is simple. We stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence.
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Morgan Dwyer

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I don’t know — I also don’t think it matters whether it’s 1% or 10% or 20% chance that something catastrophic will go wrong. None of these levels is remotely acceptable. We should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we ...
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James Manyika
Google SVP of Research, Labs, Technology & Society; Oxford-trained AI researcher and technology-policy expert.

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Capability development should not outrun our ability to manage risks and complexities.
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Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress

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The breathless race to advance the “frontier” is irresponsible. [...] Perhaps we shouldn’t drive it until it is roadworthy. [...] Ultimately, it is the race for artificial general intelligence, combined with faulty metrics and hasty choices on safety...
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Scott Bessent
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2025–present); founder of Key Square Group

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Well, then they should slow down.
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David Robinson
Former OpenAI Safety Systems leader and AI policy specialist; lead drafter of OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework v2.

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Before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.
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Audrey Schulman
Author and climate advocate; co-founder and co-executive director of HEET, a nonprofit focused on cutting emissions.

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Write a letter to legislators or to a newspaper demanding a pause in AI development and guardrails for safety.
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Niamh Teather
Consultant at Oxford Insights, a government AI-governance and digital-transformation advisory firm.

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Pacing is an attempt to buy time: to keep capability from outrunning understanding and control. [...] These are risks in the design of pacing, not reasons to abandon it.
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Geoffrey Irving
AI safety researcher; former safety researcher at OpenAI and Google DeepMind, former chief scientist at the UK AI Security Institute, and cofounder and chief scientist of Resolution.

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If you’re doing a very dangerous thing, you should just slow down. The AI companies are overplaying the extent to which this is a pure coordination problem. They could just stop unilaterally.
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Jonah Blank
American author, journalist, and foreign-policy expert; senior political scientist at RAND Corporation.

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The right-now policy conclusion is the same for both types of misalignment: We need an immediate halt to all efforts to push the AI frontier further.
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Gary Gensler
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I think we should attempt to slow and change the path, I would say, of AI development […] the path we're on is a very dangerous path and we should attempt to change that path and effectively slow down.
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Sunil Mittal
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We need to think about the regulation. I don't think we need to stifle it or stop the growth of it, but equally, it will be foolish for anybody to think that we can let it flow to a level, and then if an accident happens, then we'll think about it.
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I think the biggest thing...there is this whole debate about should we slow down AI or not. You are not going to slow it down. I mean, I just don't think that is going to happen.
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I don’t see current AI as dangerous. The calls to slow down AI development are a form of marketing and lobbying. Anthropic is portraying AI as highly dangerous to scare governments. But LLMs aren’t at that level yet.
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We tend to take a very textured approach to all that sort of thing. Will we slow down? No, we won't. There's no logical world where I think that happens.
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Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; technology investor and former Andreessen Horowitz managing partner.

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Can we do enough to make sure that the American people believe that we’re addressing their concerns appropriately without obviously compromising our ability to win?
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Bassem Fayek
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We see that global narrative on why development of these models needs to slow down until you have the right governance and measures in place. In Egypt, we are far from thinking with the same lens. We have a much more important lens to look through, w...
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Meutya Hafid
Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs

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Indonesia certainly agrees - not necessarily with slowing down AI itself, but with the need to implement 'safety by design' for AI more cautiously, a process that inevitably takes time.
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David Linthicum
AI and cloud-computing expert; founder of Linthicum Research and former Deloitte chief cloud strategy officer.

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The AI industry does not need a slowdown showdown staged by companies that already got their head start. It needs honest competition, practical safeguards, and governance that does not confuse corporate self-interest with public virtue.
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Jay Clayton
Director of National Intelligence; former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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One of the biggest risks was “not being first,” and it would be irresponsible for the US to back away from AI as other countries advance.
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Zack Korman
Co-founder of Embroidery, an AI-agent monitoring and detection company; cybersecurity practitioner and former CTO.

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I mean, if we’re gonna pause AI development right now, for example. Which is on the table; I mean, this is a very real policy proposal, which is to stop AI development because of this fear. And like, with the first incident that’s gonna happen, they’...
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Joni Ernst
U.S. senator from Iowa.

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AI has been so helpful in medical research and protecting our troops from drone swarms or missile attacks… so we need to keep moving forward. If we pause, we're not going to see China pause.
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Mike Johnson
U.S. Speaker of the House and Representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.

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We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyper-regulate this, because we'll lose the race to China. The innovation is important to continue, but we have to strike the right balance. That's what the conversation is going to be about.
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Bae Kyunghoon
South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT; AI researcher and former president of LG AI Research.

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There is no room to slow down AI. We will go faster, but more safely.
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Robin Rombach
Co-founder of Black Forest Labs and researcher known for latent diffusion models

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If you want to build a frontier model in a very competitive space, you need to do this quickly.
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Jodey Arrington
U.S. Representative for Texas's 19th congressional district.

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Zero risk means we lose. If that’s the game we’re going to play, we will lose. Managing the risk responsibly, that's right on. Winning the race, I think, is an imperative.
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