The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, Sept. 15, edition that Cohere chief executive officer Aidan Gomez is criticizing top artificial intelligence leaders' calls to slow development, arguing that companies are spreading "fear" under the guise of public protection. The Globe's Joe Castaldo writes that Mr. Gomez said in a recent essay that allowing tech giants to set rules around safety and development without broader input poses a risk. He emphasized that if this technology is truly consequential, its regulations shouldn't be decided by a few commercially aligned companies. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says frontier labs need to slow the pace of development to give risk prevention strategies time to keep up. Mr. Gomez says the firms creating the framework are the market leaders. A mechanism that slows progress while protecting existing advantages does not enhance AI safety, it risks entrenching dominant companies. David Duvenaud, who worked at Anthropic, says Mr. Gomez raises valid concerns, but glides over some of the risks AI labs are seeing, such as loss-of-control. He says, "The labs don't know how to safely develop these models further by their own standards, and they are saying so loudly."