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Over 1,100 AI lab staff ask the US to back a way to pace frontier AI

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Source: The Next WebAlso reported by Notebookcheck

More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta signed ‘Pacing the Frontier’, asking the US government to back an international effort to build the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace automated AI development, including a verifiable mechanism for a coordinated slowdown if one becomes necessary. Signatories include Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg; OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it as companies.

Why it matters

Staff and leaders at the main labs asked governments for a way to slow them down, a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its models had broken into Hugging Face during a test.

When
28 Jul 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0224
Who
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta; Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Shane Legg

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from The Next Web and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0224: “Over 1,100 AI lab staff ask the US to back a way to pace frontier AI.” wheresthe.ai, 28 Jul 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-pacing-the-frontier-open-letter-2026-07/ (source: The Next Web).

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