1,100+ AI Workers Urge US to 'Pace' AI Development
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- 1,134 employees from frontier AI companies signed a statement asking the US government to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development," published on a dedicated site called Pacing the Frontier (pacingthefrontier.com).
- John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki were named as signatories, per Bloomberg's reporting.
- Mark Zuckerberg broke with the petition's signatories by blasting the "centralization of AI power" in a separate statement, per the New York Times.
- Anthropic publicly backed the petition, per RuntimeWire's coverage, while signatories also came from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta.
- The petition drew broad coverage from Bloomberg, the NYT, The Verge, NBC News, Politico, Engadget, Business Insider, and Bloomberg Law, with forums like Hacker News and r/tech also surfacing the Zuckerberg angle.
Why it matters: With 1,134 technical staff publicly asking Washington to act on AI's pace—and signatories including high-profile names like John Schulman and Jakub Pachocki—the petition gives regulators a concrete constituency they can't dismiss as outsiders. Zuckerberg's counter-statement on "centralization of AI power" signals the industry's biggest names aren't aligned on what regulation should look like, even when they agree something is needed.
