Nobody is doing this.
> instead of trying to "slow AI research down" (which, again, is not going to happen)
The people who currently control AI are framing any attempt to weaken, share or regulate that control as slowing down AI research. That argument is broadly being rejected. In part because you can't simultaneously argue that something "is not going to happen" but also will happen if we regulate it.
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/ai-investors-anthropic-doom
> In part because you can't simultaneously argue that something "is not going to happen" but also will happen if we regulate it.
Even if the US regulates it (not going to happen: cf Trump administration), China won't, because it's a competitive advantage against the US to have better AI.
American companies do it to build an independent AI god that is going to kill us all. And to blow the financial bubble a little bit more.
So, American regulation would in fact deal with the prinary threat to humanity.