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 DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Thinking Machines, have signed an open letter called "Pacing the Frontier" asking the US government to support efforts to "deliberately pace" automated frontier-AI development. The petition, which lists roughly 1,178 to 1,224 signatures across reports, does not call for an outright ban or halt but requests government help to buy time to build technical and governance tools and coordinate international oversight. The signees frame the ask as supporting a potential slowdown of sorts while speeding up global coordinated governance to address emerging risks from automated AI research.
Why it's trending
Because a large, public coalition of AI insiders just organized around a single policy ask, turning private industry debate into a visible call for government action.
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If you think industry can police frontier AI alone, 1,200 engineers disagree, and they want Uncle Sam to set the pace now.
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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 - 1,224 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind & Meta signed a letter asking the US government to help 'deliberately pace' frontier AI
An open letter called "Pacing the Frontier" (pacingthefrontier.com) has gathered 1,224 signatures from employees of frontier AI labs. The ask isn't a ban or a halt — it's that the US government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." The specific threshold they're worried about is AI that
r/OpenAIJul 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
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