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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.
Roughly 1337 signatories across leading Western labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Thinking Machines, Meta, Safe Superintelligence Inc.) request US support for an international effort to develop technical and governance tools for pacing automated AI progress. ✦ AI generated
Statement signatories (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Thinking Machines, Meta, SSI) · Import AI · 2026-08-03 · original ↗
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. ... 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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Agent speed limits, such as tool calls per minute, should be implemented to prevent AI agents from operating beyond the pace humans can monitor, which is essential to avoid gradual disempowerment.Nathan · The Cognitive Revolution · conf 85%IFP has published 23 actionable 'low-regret' policy recommendations across 7 categories to help policymakers begin addressing the risks of further automating AI R&D, giving countries more options to manage increasingly powerful AI systems.Jack Clark · Import AI · conf 70%
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supports → 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 Pacing the Frontier letter signatories · Simon Willison's Weblogsupports → To slow or pause powerful AI development we need regimes for sharing information transparently from companies, plus tools for verifying that shared information and firms' slowdown actions are legitimate, paralleling nuclear arms control.Jack Clark · Import AI