>If these three CEOs truly believed their models were approaching consciousness and posed an extinction risk, they would slow down. But that’s not the case—they’re releasing models faster than ever, because they can’t let those “distillers” get too far ahead of their paid products. Public statements are one thing; actual actions are another. When the two contradict each other, trust the actions.

Is it not cherry picking to focus on 3 CEOs and ignore the 145,132 people who signed a "call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence":

https://superintelligence-statement.org/

Does the opinion of these 145,132 people not count because they're not CEOs of AI megacorporations?

Also, people can be so consumed with the pursuit of wealth and power (and sometime attention) that they can't bring themselves to voluntarily stop that pursuit even when they know that stopping is the right thing to do.