As someone who has been developing "AI" for ~20 years: Instead of "slow the pace", we need to change the game. Safety and capability don't have to be separate things; safety only makes things slower when it's tacked on, outside of the core technology. And the "pacing" rhetoric reifies a particular Frontier AI narrative, treating ethics (including safety) as an external check on technology, rather than part of what the technology is. Done well, ethics -- including foresight on how risks and benefits interact -- can drive innovation instead of slowing it down. If you're in the AI alignment space, you can see something similar with techniques that turned LLMs into fluent chatbots (Instruction Tuning, RLHF): Our modern technology arose, in part, from safety-informed alignment practices. They defined what the technology is. The need to reprioritize is hampered by the "race" framing, which strikes me as awkward against technology's real potential. It's not a race. There's no single track, no agreed finish line, no final point where someone wins. I see a garden instead: Many things can be grown, and many can flourish at once. Here is a picture of part of my garden.