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AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

by | Jul 28, 2026

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Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development – or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts.

“Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed,” the employees wrote in a statement. “The world’s leading Al companies believe they could be close to automating Al research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate Al progress, but there is a real risk that capability development …

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