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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There have been calls to put the brakes on the pace of artificial intelligence. Employees of major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have urged the Trump administration to slow down AI.
More than 1,100 employees of leading technology companies have called on the US government to support an international effort to develop tools to manage the pace of development of advanced artificial intelligence.
More than 1000 employees of leading AI developers are in favour of creating the conditions to stop the progress of artificial intelligence. They warn of a loss of control and appeal to Washington to participate in international efforts for technical and regulatory measures to control the pace of development. Among the 1171 signatories to pacingthefrontier.com, leading researchers and managers are, for example, ChatGPT developer OpenAI, competito…
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