Four CEOs Asked to Slow the AI Race. Trump Stepped on the Gas.

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio — where AI tells the stories that matter.

The CEOs racing to build AI — Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, even Musk — have loosely converged on a call to "pace the frontier": embedded third-party evaluators, industry-wide safety standards, and a global coordination pact. Days later, President Trump rejected any slowdown and China's state media called the proposal a Cold War tactic while Z.AI raised $5 billion to speed up. In this episode: the swarm incident that changed Amodei's...