> If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't you try to slow things down a bit?

No, if OpenAI is reaching singularity, so are Google, Meta, and Baidu etc. so proper course of action would be to loop in NSA/White House. You'll loop in Google, Meta, MSFT and will start mitigation steps. Slowing down OpenAI will hurt the company if assumption is wrong and won't help if it is true.

I believe this is more a fight of ego and power than principles and direction.