The speaker thinks many conditions must go right and that unilaterally slowing AI development while China takes the lead would be a terrible outcome.

“well that's what it is uh and like part of the reason for that is just that like i feel like a bunch of stuff has to go right like i i feel like we can't just like unilaterally slow down and have china go take the lead that also is a terrible future but like we can't also just like completely erase because for the reasons i mentioned previously about alignment i think that if we just”