A supposed slowdown is not credible. Instead, companies should speed up safety research - and make all safety research public.

Taking what Sam, Elon and Dario said about slowing down at face value is naive. To get to the top of companies like that, you have no have no qualms about making bald faced lies to people. They are all psychopaths. It's so obvious that its a lie that I'm surprised they did it. In my view they lose credibility over their safety concerns by "agreeing" to this. It would be much more credible to say they're not slowing down, and are instead looking for other alternatives to improve safety. This is actually the classic scenario we expected for a long time - as the singularity approaches, separate entities publicly declaring they would slow down, but actually continuing or accelerating reserach themselves. Slowing things down doesn't help anyway. What we need is AI safety research to speed up relative to core AI research. Companies should publicly say they're putting more money into safety research. and More importantly, companies should share their safety research and even collaborate on it. Why shouldn't they? We would all benefit from this.