(Not exactly: slowing increases time for making sense of AI, increasing risk awareness, governance, paying the alignment tax, influence-gaining and so forth– but also for misuse, safety-unconcerned actors exerting more influence, maybe multipolarity increasing, and so forth.)
I think another important consideration is not slowing alignment research. Slowing AI is useless if it slows alignment by the same amount!
(Not exactly: slowing increases time for making sense of AI, increasing risk awareness, governance, paying the alignment tax, influence-gaining and so forth– but also for misuse, safety-unconcerned actors exerting more influence, maybe multipolarity increasing, and so forth.)