It is an unusual strategy: companies, a whole industry, pleading with the world to make them work less quickly. But it is an unusual time.
Over the last few days, a growing number of AI leaders have given backing to the idea of a slow down in the development of frontier artificial intelligence, the kind of leading-edge research done by companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI. That includes the companies themselves, who have pleaded with the world to regulate them and slow down their work.
