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Investors want to see a return on their investment ASAP. The Economist recently published an article:

"AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough -- The returns on trillions of dollars of spending are deeply uncertain"

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/28/a...

As OP states: "each company—and country—is under intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow that acceleration."

Let's not overwrite human civilization for the sake of the shareholders.