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Key insights

Across the debate, many quotes support guardrails, oversight, or safety testing; the sharper dispute is whether those measures require slowing development itself.
International competition appears on both sides of the argument: supporters cite race dynamics as a reason for coordination, while opponents cite the same competition as a reason a slowdown would fail or be dangerous.
Some of the strongest calls for pacing come from within leading AI labs and AI-safety circles, while several business and government voices reject slowing as unrealistic or strategically costly.
Several quotes distinguish development from deployment, suggesting that continued research and more cautious rollout can be treated differently.
A recurring fault line is timing: some want an immediate halt at the frontier, while others want the option to slow only after clearer thresholds, incidents, or capability indicators are met.

Arguments for

Unresolved control risks

Supporters argue that frontier systems are becoming more capable faster than researchers can ensure alignment, monitoring, and human control. They say training models that may self-improve, make unsafe choices when unobserved, or exceed human control is not acceptable until safety science catches up.

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
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
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are established. And I believe tha…

Jakub Pachocki · Sep 6, 2026 · full quote
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
Until we've solved that problem, it would be foolish to develop them.

Geoffrey Hinton · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as …

Satya Nadella · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote

Competition-driven race dynamics

Many supporters say commercial and geopolitical competition rewards speed and capability, pushing labs to cut corners and making unilateral restraint difficult. Because the problem is driven by race dynamics, they call for regulation, coordination, or international enforcement rather than relying on individual firms.

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
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
It is very important to build capacity for a coordinated slowdown of AI development. A runaway race to AGI is not safe: it creates incentives to cut corners on safety, and carries a substantial risk for model capabilities to outpace development of adequate alignment, control, and…

Victoria Krakovna · Jul 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
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

Governance needs time

Another case for slowing is that it buys time for lawmakers, independent evaluators, businesses, and social institutions to build guardrails, testing, and productive uses around the technology. Proponents say capability should not outrun society's ability to govern, deploy, and absorb it responsibly.

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
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
For businesses still working out how to harness AI’s illusive productivity gains, a slowdown is not a bad thing. It will give them time to close the yawning gap between AI’s accelerating capabilities and their productive use of them. [...] The AI race, at least for enterprise use…

Michael Wade · Oct 21, 2026 · full quote
When the people building the most powerful AI systems in the world are telling us there are serious risks, it’s the latest and clearest sign yet that we need more guardrails and protections. AI has enormous potential, but we cannot let this technology move faster than our ability…

Maura Healey · Sep 14, 2026 · full quote
We must slow down development of AI in order to allow the government and its partners to catch up and put stricter protocols and guardrails in place.

Mike Rogers · Sep 14, 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

Near-term disruption and misuse

Some supporters emphasize nearer-term harms from moving too fast, including job losses, strain on infrastructure, damage to creative work, and misuse in hacking or autonomous research pipelines. From this view, slowing the frontier is a practical way to reduce immediate disruption while keeping current systems available.

If allowed to run before it can walk, the deployment of AI in Australia could put thousands of Australians out of a job, push our power grid to the brink of failure, and destroy our creative sector.

Ross Cadell · Oct 22, 2026 · full quote
The fact that Congress remains out of session as unauthorized AI agents are hacking major U.S. banks is INSANE. It’s a complete abdication of responsibility led by Mike Johnson, as he continues to take orders from a disgustingly corrupt White House. It’s long past time for an imm…

Yassamin Ansari · Oct 26, 2026 · full quote
The frontier developers – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Meta and potentially a few others – should take a lesson from the aerospace industry. They should conduct a safety stand down together and pause work on their most advanced models for 30 days. This would not stop anyone’s …

George Whitesides · Sep 15, 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
So until they can make their AI models and agents safe, so they don't go rogue or go hack other companies, they need to slow down their development and put in adequate guardrails. And we cannot expect the industry to regulate itself. We need Congress to act.

Ted Lieu · Sep 15, 2026 · full quote

Arguments against

Global slowdown is unenforceable

Opponents argue that AI development cannot be meaningfully halted because countries and firms will not all stop together. In their view, a slowdown that some follow and others ignore would be ineffective and could simply shift progress elsewhere.

It's actually impossible to control it unless we think the entire world is going to sing kumbaya and say let's slow down, which as you said is unlikely. So if that's the case, fine. You put slowdown here maybe. Well, okay. Does it mean Japan slows down? Does it mean China slows d…

Arvind Krishna · Oct 25, 2026 · full quote
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.

Chuck Robbins · Oct 14, 2026 · full quote
I think this is unrealistic. I think not everybody is going to pace themselves.

Nikesh Arora · Sep 25, 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
The frontier of intelligence is advancing rapidly. That is not a reason to pause its further development or to constrain it with new global governance structures.

Michael Kratsios · Sep 24, 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

Strategic leadership concerns

A second argument is that AI is a strategic contest and backing away would be irresponsible if rivals continue advancing. These voices say the priority is to lead, make the rules, and manage risk while still moving quickly enough to win.

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
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
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
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
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?

Scott Kupor · Oct 9, 2026 · full quote

Safeguards without a pause

Some critics reject a pause but still endorse regulation, oversight, or safety by design. They argue development can continue while governments and companies focus on practical safeguards, slower deployment where needed, and institutions analogous to safety rules in other technologies.

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.

Sunil Mittal · Oct 14, 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
AI development will continue and trying to stop it is not a realistic scenario. But deployment should not move at the same speed as development. For the benefit of humanity, continuing to develop more capable AI systems is a good thing.

Nihad A. Hassan · Sep 22, 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
Pausing frontier AI development will not solve the problems its supporters claim it will solve. If anything, it risks making several of them worse.

Jay Burstein · Mar 16, 2026 · full quote

Incumbent-interest skepticism

Others contend that the case for slowing is overstated or premature, either because current systems are not yet at the claimed danger level or because established labs benefit when competition is restrained. On this view, calls to slow down can blur the line between public safety and corporate self-interest.

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.

Yann LeCun · Oct 12, 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
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
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’re not gonna kill a million pe…

Zack Korman · Oct 2, 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Threshold-based pacing

Some participants distinguish between a blanket pause now and having clear conditions under which development should slow or stop. They support defined safety bars, emergency channels, or governance triggers so action occurs when risks become too great rather than by default.

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
We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations. We just need companies to decide. … I think innovation speed and safe products are not — it’s a false choice. You could definitely have both at the same time. So run as fast as you can, but if you feel at any given point …

Jensen Huang · Sep 15, 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
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
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
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

Careful coordination design

A related view is that future slowdown mechanisms may be necessary, but only if they are clearly defined, verifiable, and designed to avoid excessive concentration of power or other unintended harms. These voices focus less on declaring a pause now than on building workable auditing, verification, and governance tools before a crisis.

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
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 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
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
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

The debate is less about whether AI carries serious stakes than about what practical response those stakes justify right now. Supporters argue that present incentives and unresolved control problems make slower frontier development necessary, while opponents say pauses are unenforceable, strategically risky, or a poor substitute for targeted safeguards. A middle position seeks trigger-based, internationally coordinated pacing mechanisms rather than either unchecked speed or an immediate blanket halt.

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Mustafa Suleyman
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If consciousness started to emerge in training, I would call for everyone to stop AI development until we could design out those properties.
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The race can be stopped. If the government had any idea what’s going on, it would be stopped already. Hell, if the Chinese government had any idea what’s going on, they’d stop the race: governments can stop unilaterally, then exercise all of their so...
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Berlin chapter of PauseAI, an international AI-safety advocacy movement.

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The solution according to experts is simple: We need a global pause of AI development until we know how to make it safe, controllable and beneficial for humanity.
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Gillian Hadfield
Legal scholar and AI governance researcher; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)

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I support a pause in development while we figure out how to make these systems safe, and especially a pause in the development of agents.
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Frank G. Splitt
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There can be little doubt that fast-paced AI technology development will continue by all parties that are incentivized by their quest for market dominance, ultimately by money and geopolitical power. […] Understanding that both human-based risks can ...
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The fact that Congress remains out of session as unauthorized AI agents are hacking major U.S. banks is INSANE. It’s a complete abdication of responsibility led by Mike Johnson, as he continues to take orders from a disgustingly corrupt White House. ...
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Matteo Wong
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The industry is moving too quickly to adequately guarantee its products are safe.
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Ross Cadell
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If allowed to run before it can walk, the deployment of AI in Australia could put thousands of Australians out of a job, push our power grid to the brink of failure, and destroy our creative sector.
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Design It For Us
Youth-led coalition advocating responsible technology policy and protections for young people.

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The largest AI companies should slow down the pace of development.
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Michael Wade
Professor of Strategy and Digital at IMD Business School and Director of its Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation.

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For businesses still working out how to harness AI’s illusive productivity gains, a slowdown is not a bad thing. It will give them time to close the yawning gap between AI’s accelerating capabilities and their productive use of them. [...] The AI rac...
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Timothy Gowers
British mathematician, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Collège de France and University of Cambridge.

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We already have a tool that can do pretty incredible things and seems to be on the cusp of becoming dangerous: surely it would be better to pause development and work out how best to use what we currently have. That would give us time to do the neces...
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Pragya Misra
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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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Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), researching AI policy, AI agents, transparency, and technical AI governance.

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When we see those indicators, we should probably, you know, pause and try to figure out what went down before going forward again.
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Jeffrey Sachs
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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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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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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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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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Arvind Krishna
IBM chairman and CEO

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It's actually impossible to control it unless we think the entire world is going to sing kumbaya and say let's slow down, which as you said is unlikely. So if that's the case, fine. You put slowdown here maybe. Well, okay. Does it mean Japan slows do...
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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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Chuck Robbins
Chair and chief executive officer of Cisco.

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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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Mike Cannon-Brookes
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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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Scott Kupor
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
Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), leading its Egypt office.

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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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Mandate big AI companies spend 30% of compute on AI safety

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