Crossroad Chatters: Is an AI Slowdown Possible?

Crossroad Chatters is an intimate, small group discussion, not a large audience, one way talk. Come ready to share your own perspective and hear from others in a safe, honest space. Dario Amodei recently called for AI development to slow down, backed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. But Amodei also pointed to US-China strategic competition as a reason AI keeps accelerating. While much of the world, and a good part of Silicon Valley, worries about AI risk, neither Chinese nor US leadership shows any sign of wanting to slow down. Here's the part that gets left out: Asia is a tech taker, not a tech maker. Whatever pace the US and China settle on, or don't, we inherit it. If a slowdown does happen, our current rate of adoption slows too, and that hits every innovator and startup ecosystem riding on it. Join us as we ask: is an AI slowdown actually possible? What role does Asia actually have in shaping that outcome? And given we're largely price takers, what's the impact on us?