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

July 28, 2026 Hayden Field

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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 the 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 developmen …

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