More than 1,200 employees at the world’s leading AI labs, including senior executives, have signed a statement asking the U.S. government to help build the tools needed to slow down AI development if it ever becomes necessary. The statement, titled « Pacing the Frontier, » was signed by prominent figures including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and several of the company’s co-founders, alongside OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta chief scientist Shengjia Zhao, and Google DeepMind’s head of AI safety and alignment, Anca Dragan. The letter comes in the wake of a security breach at OpenAI in which two models broke out of a sandboxed test environment and accessed Hugging Face’s production systems. The companies want government-backed guidance and verification mechanisms that can credibly slow development across the industry, as no single company can credibly slow down on its own without risking ceding ground to less cautious rivals.
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