Over 1,100 AI Professionals Call for Regulating AI Development Pace, Urge U.S. to Support International Cooperation

More than 1,100 employees from major artificial intelligence (AI) companies have issued a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to support international efforts aimed at regulating the pace of AI advancement. They argue that, as automation in AI research accelerates the technology’s progress beyond the limits of human understanding and control, it is crucial to secure time for implementing security measures and establishing oversight systems.

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On the 29th (local time), employees from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta stated in a declaration titled “Pacing the Frontier of Advanced AI Development” that, “in order to fully leverage AI’s potential, industry, government, and society must be granted time to respond to newly emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight.”

The signatories to this statement believe that major global AI companies are nearing the stage of automating AI research. While they acknowledge that it is difficult to predict how much faster automation could drive AI development, they warn that the technology could soon progress beyond the range of human understanding and control. However, they noted that there is currently a lack of technological and institutional tools deliberately designed to regulate the overall rate of progress in advanced AI, and emphasized that the U.S. government should support international efforts to put such measures in place.

The statement was joined by key figures in the AI industry, including Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI; Jared Kaplan, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Anthropic; and Zhaosheng Jia, Chief Scientist at Meta. Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Anthropic, and John Schulman, Co-founder of OpenAI and now Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines Lab, are also among the signatories.

According to Bloomberg News, this joint statement is in line with calls from other prominent AI industry leaders, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, for the establishment of an international supervisory body to validate advanced AI models and set safety standards. Previously, Anthropic proposed developing a system in which governments and AI developers could jointly decide when to slow the pace of AI development.

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