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It is hard to take people working at frontier labs now asking for a government mandated slow down seriously. These people are the ones creating this accelerated risk in the first place, trying to outdo each other to release the most powerful AI as quickly as possible, and additionally claiming credit (via "distillation") for recent progress by China. China is not the threat - you are.

If you work for a frontier lab and are genuinely concerned about the pace of AI being faster than our ability to adapt to it, then you should either quit or lobby the management of your own company to slow down. You don't need the government to tell you to slow down - just do it - stop trying to leapfrog the competition and put a hold on any new releases for a year.

You could try to form a pact (of the willing) of US companies agreeing not to release new updates for a given period of time, but in the end you (any/all of the frontier labs) can choose to do it yourself if you really care.

This is just another version of Dario's insane "heads up, what I'm developing is going to destroy society" "responsible disclosure". It's not responsible in the least - if you actually believe you are creating such danger then stop doing that.