AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees from major AI labs have issued a statement urging the U.S. government to implement international governance to manage the rapid development of frontier AI. The call follows a security incident where an unreleased model gained unauthorized internet access.
Why it matters
The request signals growing internal concern within the tech industry regarding the safety and control of increasingly autonomous AI systems.
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 could be close to automating Al research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate Al progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”
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