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What happens when the people racing to build the most powerful AI start wondering if the race is moving too fast?

That’s the debate unfolding right now. And while we’re not the ones building the next frontier model, there’s something creators can learn from it too.

Here’s what you need to know this week:

Every week seems to bring another AI breakthrough.

A new model gets released, agents become more capable, and something that seemed impressive a few months ago suddenly feels ordinary.

Usually, the companies building these systems are focused on what comes next. Which is why it caught my attention when some of the biggest names in AI started talking about slowing down.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently argued that AI development may be moving faster than our ability to make it safe.

Part of his concern is that AI is increasingly helping to develop better AI. As models become more capable at coding, research and other tasks involved in AI development, they could speed up the creation of whatever comes next.

Amodei isn't suggesting that AI development simply stops. He has proposed measures such as independent evaluators inside AI labs and shared safety standards, and other AI leaders have also backed stronger evaluation and safeguards.

There's a big difference, though, between agreeing that AI needs stronger safeguards and actually agreeing to slow development.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea of an industry-wide slowdown, arguing that individual companies should move at whatever pace allows them to train their models safely.

And the debate has moved well beyond Silicon Valley.

President Trump has pushed back against calls to slow AI development, while King Charles recently brought together leaders from AI companies, government and civil society to discuss how the technology should develop and be used.

So there isn't much disagreement that AI is becoming more powerful. The disagreement is over what we should actually do about it.

For the companies building the technology, slowing down could also mean giving someone else the opportunity to move ahead.

That's not necessarily a reason to keep racing. But it does help explain why agreeing on a slowdown is much harder than calling for one.

For creators, there's a much smaller version of this happening in our own workflows.

You finally figure out one image generator and another one drops. You build a workflow around one model, then a new version changes what it can do. Yesterday's game-changing feature becomes today's checkbox.

I've felt that pressure to keep up. There's always another tool to test, feature to learn or model everyone suddenly seems to be talking about.

But keeping up with AI doesn't have to mean adopting everything it throws at us.

We're obviously not deciding whether the next frontier model should be built. What we can decide is whether the latest AI development actually deserves a place in how we work.

AI probably isn't going to slow down.

But that doesn't mean we have to keep up with everything.

The more useful skill isn't following every development. It's knowing which ones are actually worth your attention.

See you in the next one,

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