Over 1,000 Frontier AI Employees Sign Letter Urging Tools to Deliberately Pace AI Progress
thione · x · 2026-08-03
More than 1,000 employees from AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google signed a letter calling on the U.S. to support tools that could 'deliberately pace' AI progress, citing risks from automated research. Signatories include Anthropic co-founders Jack Clark and Chris Olah; the letter does not call for a pause but for optional slowdown mechanisms.
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