They could slow down more if they knew others were also slowing. If others are also slowing, you can slow more yourself without loss of market share.

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Many experts believe that:

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk

If the antitrust waiver is too broad, we can always rework it. But there's no "undo" button for human extinction.