Pacing the Frontier
Over 1,100 employees from major AI companies have signed a statement warning that rapid, uncontrolled progress in frontier AI poses significant societal and safety risks. They advocate for better coordination and governance to ensure that AI development remains responsible and manageable.
Why it matters
This collective action highlights growing internal concern within the AI industry regarding the pace of development and the potential for catastrophic risks if safety measures do not keep up with capability gains.
A statement from 1,122 employees of frontier AI companies
AI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed. The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.
To realize AI's potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight. But each company—and country—is under intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow that acceleration. And today, the world lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress.
Building on work already underway to monitor frontier model releases:
- 1122 employees of frontier AI companies
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