So if OpenAI and Google were to do their bidding and "pause" (temporarily? for how long?), how do they propose to monitor the rest of the world? Or is everyone else exempt? And if so, why?
I think the key language here is pause "commercial use". They're not asking for a pause on R&D - just not making the tech/products available to the market (to quote: "temporarily pause commercial use"), until such time as agreed guardrails can be applied. This is a much more pragmatic solution than the "open letter" calling a halt on R&D.