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Now, this: 1,100 current/former frontier-AI employees sign a petition calling for US gov't to step in for 'pacing' frontier development
So, it appears that this is the week of open letters in AI🥲... an open letter signed by current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google primarily - calling for a slow-down in frontier AI
So, it appears that this is the week of open letters in AI🥲... an open letter signed by current and former employees of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google primarily - calling for a slow-down in frontier AI development and strengthened government "oversight". To realize AI's potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight. Pacing the Frontier And yes - that really is the full statement. It is only three short sections🥲 AI research automation may accelerate capabilities beyond understanding or control. Society may need a way to “buy time,” but competitive pressure prevents unilateral slowing. A single request: the U.S. government should support an international effort to create technical and governance tools for deliberately pacing automated frontier-AI development. There is no detailed policy proposal, no definition of “pace,” no thresholds, enforcement design, verification mechanism, China strategy, open-source treatment, compute-control framework, or concrete evidence demonstrating that automated AI R&D is presently near a dangerous runaway point. Some personal comments go much further. One OpenAI employee describes a “deadly race towards an intelligence explosion” and says coordination is necessary “to survive” Frankly, the disproportion between the heavyweight signatures and the thinness of the document is the strangest aspect. For something implicitly asking government to acquire influence over the pace of frontier research, three paragraphs with no operational detail is remarkably unserious. submitted by /u/etherd0t [link] [comments]
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- It appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned already
- More than 20 companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face have signed a letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open weight models.
- Microsoft's website shows OpenAI as one of the signatories of the open weight AI letter
Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-07-28