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The US government should support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
The author introduces 'Pacing the Frontier,' published July 28th with signatures from 1,324 employees of frontier AI companies (including Jakub Pachocki, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei and Jack Clark), and quotes its core request: a US-backed international effort to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development. ✦ AI generated
the Pacing the Frontier letter signatories · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-02 · original ↗
We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
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Over 1,000 employees from frontier AI labs have cosigned a statement requesting the U.S. government support an international effort to develop tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development, due to the risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.1,171 employees of frontier AI companies · Latent Space · conf 90%The world's leading AI companies ask the US government to support an international effort to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development, because capability growth may outrun our ability to control resulting systems.Statement signatories (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Thinking Machines, Meta, SSI) · Import AI · conf 70%