“Perhaps, as proposed by Hugging Face’s own ethics team, we shouldn’t develop fully autonomous agents at all. These proposals might slow down progress on AI in science, mathematics, and other areas, but many people, including at frontier AI companies, have been asking for a “forced” slowdown. Safe, useful models can most certainly be built, but it might require trading off the inexorable quest for “AGI” or “superintelligence” for more human-centered qualities such as interpretability, transparency, and, dare I say it, concern for the environment.”