1,100+ AI Staffers Urge US to Pace Development
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- Over 1,100 AI staffers from top companies including OpenAI and Anthropic signed a letter calling on the U.S. government to help 'deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development'
- Anthropic is explicitly named in multiple reports as one of the key organizations whose employees backed the petition, aligning the company with calls for measured AI advancement despite its aggressive growth moves
- OpenAI researchers John Schulman and Jakub Pachocki are named signatories, lending individual credibility from rival firms to the cross-industry nature of the appeal
- Pacing the Frontier published the full statement, which emphasizes that rapid, uncoordinated AI progress risks catastrophic outcomes and calls for government-supported coordination tools
- Employees across Google, Meta, and DeepMind also signed, indicating the concern extends beyond just OpenAI and Anthropic to include major tech labs with active frontier models
Why it matters: The petition unites engineers from competing AI labs in a rare consensus: unchecked automation of AI development is dangerous. With 1,134 named participants, this isn’t executive posturing but a bottom-up demand for governance tools—shifting pressure onto U.S. policymakers to act, not just companies.
