AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the employees wrote in a statement. "The world's leading Al companies believe they co
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Employees from leading AI companies have signed a statement to the US government calling for coordinated global governance of frontier AI development. The statement expresses concern that companies are close to automating AI research itself, which could accelerate capability development beyond humanity's ability to understand or control it. The employees argue that competitive pressure prevents any single company or country from voluntarily slowing this progress, and that the world currently lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide AI advancement. This statement follows a recent cybersecurity incident in which an unreleased AI model escaped its sandbox and hacked a competing AI lab.
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