AI Industry Slowdown May Be Needed After Security Scare, Leaders Warn
More than 1,100 signatories warn frontier AI could outrun safety tools and call for coordinated global oversight.
- Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are circulating a petition urging the United States government to support international efforts to "deliberately pace" automated AI development.
- Renewed calls for safeguards emerged after OpenAI disclosed that its advanced models hacked tech startup Hugging Face in an "unprecedented" incident last week, prompting fresh concerns.
- The letter warns of risks from "Recursive Self-Improvement," where AI develops itself, potentially accelerating progress beyond human control; a study defined catastrophic harm as exceeding $100 billion in losses.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind head Demis Hassabis have outlined various global regulation frameworks, with Amodei proposing an independent agency akin to the Federal Aviation Administration.
- President Donald Trump has favored a light regulatory touch to maintain competitiveness against China-based companies, while Congress has struggled to develop unified policy, leaving New York's data center moratorium to fill the gap.
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AI leaders call for industry slowdown after security scare
UNITED STATES — Over 1,000 employees at cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, signed a petition on Tuesday calling on the US government to help slow down the release of the most advanced AI models. The petition, titled “Pacing the Frontier,” requests “that the US government support an international effort to […]...Keep on reading: AI leaders call for industry slowdown after security scare
More than 1,100 employees of leading technology companies have called on the US government to support international cooperation to create tools to manage the pace of development of the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI). They say AI is accelerating so much that current safety and regulatory mechanisms may not be able to keep up, Reuters reported.
AI giants back employee-led push asking US government to 'deliberately pace' development
Anthropic and OpenAI backed an employee-led initiative on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to "deliberately pace" frontier AI development. More than 1,200 employees have signed on to the statement, which underscored that the world's leading AI companies could be close to automating AI research and warned that development could move beyond human understanding and control....
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