EventPolicyAugust 1, 2026
Over 1,000 AI employees sign statement calling for slower development

More than 1,000 employees from companies including OpenAI and Anthropic signed the "Pacing the Frontier" statement. The group is asking the US government to develop tools to deliberately slow the pace of automated AI development.
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