[froh]

what do you mean?

if feasible this proposal is imho exactly what we need: a pause to collectively think how we get all the benefits without the potential harms.

to the non-techies around me I compare the boost of LLMs with the journey from slide rule via punch card driven computers through mainframes and PC to the smart phones of our days --- just within less than a decade, and we're at the transition from mainframe to PC with models that can produce reasonable output on a normal laptop.

how about we check we're getting where we want to get to, before getting to some dystopic place where everyone wonders how we got _there_?

I see nothing "full of themselves" in that.