AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
What's happening
More than 1,100 current and former employees from frontier AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Thinking Machines and others signed a public statement urging the US government to step in on automated frontier AI development. The signers ask for either a slowdown in frontier model development or faster, coordinated global governance and oversight to buy time to address emerging risks. The petition appears as a broadly circulated open letter titled "Pacing the Frontier" with roughly 1,178 to 1,200+ signees and has prompted related calls for national consultations on AI transparency and regulation in places like Canada.
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A concentrated wave of open letters and petitions from AI insiders makes government action and coordinated oversight an immediate and newsworthy demand.
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If the people who built the race are asking the government to slow it down, maybe the race never needed to be so fast in the first place.
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- AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research
The RegisterJul 29 - 1,178 employees of frontier AI companies have signed to "Pace the frontier AI development"
Pacing the Frontier A statement from 1,178 employees of frontier AI companies What do you think about this? Share your views. I'm conflicted.
r/artificialJul 29 - Now, this: 1,100 current/former frontier-AI employees sign a petition calling for US gov't to step in for "pacing" frontier development
So, it appears that this is the week of open letters in AI🥲... an open letter signed by current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google primarily - calling for a slow-down in frontier AI development and strengthened government "oversight". To realize AI's potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security
r/LocalLLaMAJul 28
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