More than 1,200 employees from major AI companies and research labs—including OpenAI and Anthropic and others such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines—sign a statement sent to the U.S. government calling for “deliberate” pacing of frontier AI development. The signatories argue that advanced AI systems are approaching a stage where AI research and development could become increasingly automated, potentially reducing the ability of humans to understand, steer, or control progress.
The statement also emphasizes the need for government action to support coordinated governance and oversight as AI capabilities advance. While the signatories characterize their request as slowing the pace of frontier work, they frame it as creating time for effective, globally coordinated governance rather than stopping development altogether. The initiative is presented as an employee-led effort backed by staff across leading laboratories, with the signers warning that unmanaged acceleration could outstrip established human knowledge and safeguards.
