1,238 Frontier AI Lab Employees Petition US Gov to Slow Down AI Race
sjgadler · x · 2026-07-30
Over 1,238 employees from frontier AI companies, including John Schulman, have signed a statement titled Pacing the Frontier. The statement warns that AI capabilities are rapidly approaching or exceeding human limits, and automating AI research could lead to uncontrollable risks.
The signatories caution that intense commercial competition prevents unilateral deceleration. They urge the US government to back an international effort to develop technical and governance tools designed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development, buying time for safety measures.
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