Given the rate of progress in robotics, if AI works then there won't be anyone left standing to worry about. That's the whole point of doing it fast, otherwise

Given the rate of progress in robotics, if AI works then there won't be anyone left standing to worry about. That's the whole point of doing it fast, otherwise yes they will attempt to slow things down so they can take advantage of the intermediate state where some are still standing, temporarily, to get rid of the others. And that is very much what a lot of the current pausing noise is in aid of.