Are you aware that malicious actors representing the world’s most successful hacking groups and aggressive nation-states are building their own generative AI replicas? They won’t stop for anything, and as quickly as the ChatGPT, Bard, and other well-known generative AI models are advancing, American businesses have to be cautious.

Generative AI has the power to revolutionize society as we know it, and experts are concerned about the overwhelming speed with which it could transform various industries. However, America cannot afford a private or government-ordered pause on developing AI, as doing so would cripple our ability to defend individuals and businesses from our enemies.

Regulators aren’t used to moving at the speed that AI necessitates, and even if they were, there’s no guarantee that it would make a difference in how we’re able to use AI to successfully defend ourselves from adversaries. Our geopolitical rivals will disregard any attempt America makes to place guardrails around AI development, and we risk falling behind our adversaries in multiple ways if we pause our research.

Both sides are developing their arsenal of AI-based tools as fast as possible, and pausing that development would only sideline the good guys. We have to operate at the pace of AI’s current development, or in other words, the speed of data.