EventPolicyJuly 29, 2026
1,100+ AI workers petition US government to pace frontier development
Over 1,100 employees from firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed a letter urging the US government to establish governance to deliberately pace AI advancement. Signatories cite the risk of automated research accelerating technological progress beyond human control.
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