Over 1,300 AI Employees Sign 'Pacing the Frontier' Plea to Slow Down ASI Race
peterwildeford · x · 2026-07-31
Over 1,300 employees from leading AI companies—including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others—have signed a statement titled Pacing the Frontier. The article highlights that the current core strategy of major AI labs is to automate software engineering and AI research, which will rapidly accelerate the arrival of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).
The author warns that this aggressive trajectory is highly risky, as the industry remains unsure of what safeguards are necessary before handing over control to AIs. The statement calls for a temporary agreement to halt progress beyond critical capability thresholds until robust safety measures are fully developed and implemented.
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