The chorus of people been calling for a pause has gotten louder. I'm ready to join them. Until recently, generative AI was more of a promising novelty than a useful tool. Work theater rather than work. Sometime over the last 6 months this changed. LLMs can do real work, enough that workers and companies and governments need time to catch up to the present state of things.
Which country? What happens when other countries don’t stop and pull ahead? What happens when business moves elsewhere? I cannot think of anything more unlikely to succeed that, against all odds were it to succeed, would have such a terrible set of adverse consequences and be completely ineffective.
