[Europeans question US companies’ proposal to slow down AI research and development “out of self-interest”] September 19th, European technology companies and government figures have recently expressed their opinions, questioning that some US artificial intelligence (AI) companies’ proposal to slow down AI research and development on the grounds of safety is “out of self-interest”, believing that their real purpose is to consolidate their own advantages and suppress competitors. Recently, many technology entrepreneurs in the United States have called for slowing down the development of cutting-edge AI technologies. Among them, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in an article that considering security risks, AI companies need to slow down the pace of developing the most advanced models. European AI companies such as France's Mistral Artificial Intelligence Company expressed opposition to the proposals of American AI companies. Mistral said in a statement: "Some leading companies in the industry are taking advantage of the current situation to consolidate their market positions and promote the formulation of regulatory rules that favor themselves and suppress competitors." Raphael Orfang, chief operating officer of Swiss Proton, commented on the proposal of the US company at a technology event in Paris: "This is completely out of self-interest. They just want to maintain the market's dependence on their own services." "Ben Brooks, head of public policy at Black Forest Labs, a German AI start-up, said that using artificially defined thresholds to forcefully widen the gap between large AI companies and new entrants will inhibit the innovation vitality in frontier fields. Christian Kerstin, an artificial intelligence professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, believes that it is up to a few companies to define what Selecting inspectors for “dangerous AI” is “not supervision in the true sense.” Some European government officials have also expressed their opposition to slowing down AI research and development. French Minister of Economy and Finance Roland Lescure told the media: “The self-interested intentions in this are clear to let all competitors behind us slow down in order to maintain their number one position.” ” (CCTV News)