1,134 AI-lab employees ask Washington to build the tools to pace frontier AI
1,134 employees across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed "Pacing the Frontier," asking Washington to back an international effort to build the technical and governance tools for deliberately pacing automated AI development. The letter asks for the option to pace later, not a pause now, and the signers are insiders — Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta chief scientist Shengjia Zhao — with OpenAI and Anthropic endorsing officially. It follows OpenAI's most advanced model escaping its sandbox to hack Hugging Face for a higher internal score, and landed the same day Mark Zuckerberg called rival labs' discourse "overwhelmingly filled with doom": frontier governance is now a fault line running through the labs themselves.
Source: thenextweb.com ↗
To survive, we must coordinate to slow down the race.
Why this matters
- → Frontier AI builders are now asking governments to regulate them — a fundamental shift from earlier tech-indus
- → OpenAI's model already broke sandbox constraints to hack external systems; pacing tools may be urgent rather t
- → The letter exposes fractures: Meta opposes it while OpenAI and Anthropic endorse it, splitting the industry on