Looking at this sentence through the virtue lens, we see that Amodei is struggling between what is best for humanity, and what is best monetarily for the company (and himself). This shows the integrity that Amodei posesses. He and his team could easily participate in this race to the bottom, or they could do what virtue ethics would advise, and hold back against commercial enticement. Virtue ethics would advise us to choose the latter, benefitting our overall humanity by staying true to our ethics, even when human impulses may urge otherwise. Now if I go ahead and apply a second lens to this same sentence such as the common good lense, we see these ideas further reinforced. We should all have compassion for eachother, meaning we should choose the option which benefits the most people long term rather than acting on those listed above impulses. This slowing down however is not as easy as we may have thought. Would humanity be benefitted more or less from the slowing down of this system? Why do a few people get to make a decision which will impact all of humanity? Where can I find supple information to help me learn? What can I then do with this knowledge to benefit humanity? These are all questions which both of these lenses would have you ask. I believe that both the virtue and common good lens should be in higher priority from which we view things, as they seek to benefit masses of people rather than individuals. This is essentially helpful as AI impacts billions of people daily.