The speaker says AI companies currently express concern that AI progress may need to be slowed or managed and that society may not be prepared to handle the associated problems.

“which to be clear is a little bit of what's currently going on where the AI companies are like.”

“I don't know, guys, we might really need to like,”

“you know, manage the rate of acceleration in AI progress.”

“Like, I don't know if we're on track to be able to handle all these problems.”