> “We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around some of these new capability levels,”

Translation: "You can't just slap our product into any job and make infinite money, which means our pitch was a lie. And the bottom is going to drop out of the speculation once this is more widely known. In order to stave that off, what we have to do is spook people enough that they let us slow down, we'll use our current position to try and stay afloat until we figure out if we can make good on the promise of turning capital into more money without workers."