The Effect of a Ppause on AI Safety

"I got to take my hat off to you because that's what you want with something like that," says John Defterios. "My personal goal with the letter was actually to mainstream the conversation on whether we should pause and not so that people felt comfortable having it", he adds. The next step is to see, okay, where is that all going to go? But I think the reason we haven't seen a pause already is not because the people leading the companies building them are somehow not concerned."