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Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier

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Over 1,200 employees of frontier AI labs signed an open letter endorsed by OpenAI and Anthropic calling for the U.S. government to develop tools and mechanisms for deliberately pacing AI development in the future. The signatories include major figures from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, with Anthropic having the highest participation rate at 9.8% of its employee base. The letter asks for preparatory groundwork now to enable international coordination on slowing AI progress if needed, rather than requesting an immediate slowdown, reflecting widespread concern among AI researchers that automated AI development could accelerate beyond humanity's ability to control it.

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The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday. This letter noticeably increases my hope that we will manage to not die, and that we will otherwise be able to secure for ourselves a positive future, both by its impact … Continue reading →

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