Is There a Slowing Down of AI Development?

I think it's possible to imagine some sort of slowing down among a small number of actors. We're fortunate that there is a high concentration of computing power and talent and skill in a fairly small number of organizations. There's pretty much no chance of some random person out competing the top organizations at AI in a surprising way. It's possible that with some of the top companies and nonprofits as well as countries they could coordinate not to postpone AI across society for a long period of time.