If, say, the US government were to regulate OpenAI and Big Tech in general to slow them down significantly, this might buy a few years. In the longer term you’d need to get China etc. on board—but that is not completely unfathomable and should be significantly easier, if you’re not running ahead full steam yourself.
I found this a very lucid write-up of the case for slowing down and how realistic/unrealistic it is:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uFNgRumrDTpBfQGrs/let-s-think-about-slowing-down-ai
If, say, the US government were to regulate OpenAI and Big Tech in general to slow them down significantly, this might buy a few years. In the longer term you’d need to get China etc. on board—but that is not completely unfathomable and should be significantly easier, if you’re not running ahead full steam yourself.