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“And despite Trump’s staunch stance in favor of acceleration, a lot more Republicans want to slow AI development down: Meanwhile, economists have gotten in on the AI risk debate — which is how you know it’s really gone mainstream.”

“But even more fundamentally, I don’t know how much this debate matters in the practical sense — even without the kind of Singularity depicted in sci-fi novels, AI capabilities are improving so rapidly that they’re already superhuman in many respects, and soon…”

“There are five main groups of people opposing the slowdown: The Trump administration, which is worried that an AI slowdown might also slow down economic growth Investors who think a slowdown might hurt their bottom line Libertarians and techno-optimists who…”

“In our last post, we evaluated the claims of a recent open letter by AI company employees calling for governments to “pace” frontier AI development.”

“Some amount of slowdown is to be expected.”