Will be interesting to see what excuses these companies will come up with to justify stopping investment in AI without spelling it out. The first one was already announced: it's going to kill everyone so we need to proceed more slowly.
Interesting. I had been interpreting "it's too dangerous; make us slow down" as hype to get more investment and/or customers. "We don't have the money to build out" is an interesting alternate interpretation.
It's hype to get Trump to regulate the import of competitive Chinese models. A regulatory capture play.
I see it as "make regulation that will throttle our competition (especially foreign one)" mixed with "look at us, our AI so advanced" pre-IPO advertising
Both are reasonable, but the recent hype around all the cyberattacks seems far more aggressive and specifically them arguing that they need to slow down for safety sounds very suspiciously like trying to come up with a reason for slowing progress.