{"slug": "a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies", "title": "A statement from 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies", "summary": "A statement signed by 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies, including OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, requests that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development. The signatories, writing in July 2026, warn that capability development could rapidly accelerate beyond the ability to understand or control the resulting systems, and that competitive pressure prevents any single company or country from slowing unilaterally. All comments were made in a personal capacity and do not necessarily represent any company's views.", "body_md": "JULY 2026\n\nA statement from 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies\n\nAI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed. The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.\n\nTo 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. But each company—and country—is under intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow that acceleration. And today, the world lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress.\n\nBuilding on work already underway to monitor frontier model releases:\n\nWe request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”\n\n- 1,386 employees of frontier AI companies\n\nJohn Schulman\n\nChief Scientist, Thinking Machines\n\nJakub Pachocki\n\nChief Scientist, OpenAI\n\nJared Kaplan\n\nCo-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic\n\nShengjia Zhao\n\nChief Scientist, Meta AI\n\nShane Legg\n\nCo-Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind\n\nIlya Sutskever\n\nCEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.\n\nMark Chen\n\nChief Research Officer, OpenAI\n\nJasjeet Sekhon\n\nChief Strategy Officer, Google DeepMind\n\nDario Amodei\n\nCEO, Anthropic\n\nJack Clark\n\nCo-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic\n\nAnca Dragan\n\nVP, AI Safety & Alignment, Google\n\nWojciech Zaremba\n\nHead of AI Resilience, OpenAI Foundation\n\nDawn Song\n\nVP, AI Research, Meta\n\nChris Olah\n\nCo-Founder & Interpretability Research Lead, Anthropic\n\nLaura Weidinger\n\nStaff Research Scientist, Google\n\nBenjamin Mann\n\nCo-Founder, Anthropic\n\nStephanie Chan\n\nJulian Schrittwieser\n\nAnthropic\n\nSummer Yue\n\nDirector of Alignment and Risk, Meta\n\nJan Leike\n\nAll comments are made in a personal capacity and do not necessarily represent any company’s views.\n\n\"The world is locked in a deadly race towards an intelligence explosion, where AI’s ability to create better AIs reaches a critical point, just like a runaway nuclear chain reaction. Going slower would give us much-needed time to make it go well, but no individual actor is willing to stop unilaterally. To survive, we must coordinate to slow down the race.\"\n\nLeo Gao\n\nMember of Technical Staff, OpenAI\n\n\"Even after 3 years working on AI capability evaluations, the recent pace of progress has been a shock. To avoid catastrophic harms from AGI, we need much, much better coordination.\"\n\nMatthew Rahtz\n\nStaff Research Engineer, Google\n\n\"As a foreign national, I see a US-supported effort as existential, not only for the liberties of the free world but for the prosperity of all.\"\n\nChristian Ryan\n\nMember of Technical Staff, Anthropic\n\n\"Like splitting the atom, AI holds the potential for both immense benefit and immense risk. The world should take the time to do this right.\"\n\nWill Yager\n\n\"At the current pace, every couple of weeks there will be new models which significantly increase the consequences of model misuse and misalignment. I worry that efforts to mitigate these risks may fail to keep up with the pace of development, and that margins for error will become increasingly small under international competitive pressures. In the near future, we may urgently want to enact an…\"\n\nMicah Carroll\n\nMisalignment Preparedness, OpenAI\n\n\"AI is progressing at a rate that our society might not be ready for. Frontier labs are very close to AI that can exceed even the best people on almost every metric of intelligence. This will lead to unprecedented social and safety risks. To ensure a positive future we need to develop AI in a way that is driven by responsibility and thoughtfulness.\"\n\n\"Signed because this statement helps establish common knowledge about the possible need for coordination mechanisms as automated AI research accelerates progress. I'd also like to see labs start designing these mechanisms voluntarily, even before the USG gets involved.\"\n\n\"In the span of four years, we have gone from people having their first experience of an Al that could understand language, to Al that is performing superhuman feats of software engineering, making frontier math breakthroughs, and accelerating scientific research. Progress has shown no signs of slowing down and by default it is in the interest of individual corporations and countries to push the…\"\n\nShantanu Jain\n\n\"As Melvin Kranzberg wrote, technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. Achieving societal benefit depends on understanding the interdependent ways in which many humans use advanced AI systems in concert, understanding that takes time to acquire. Pacing progress towards automated AI research allows us the time to build understanding of societal-scale changes, yielding not only an…\"\n\nEdward Hughes\n\nChief Scientist, Inherent", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies", "canonical_source": "https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/#about", "published_at": "2026-09-14 22:41:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 23:03:37.663087+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-research"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google DeepMind", "Meta AI", "Thinking Machines", "Safe Superintelligence Inc.", "Jakub Pachocki", "Dario Amodei"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-statement-from-1386-employees-of-frontier-ai-companies.jsonld"}}