1,132 frontier AI employees ask the U.S. government to lead an international effort to deliberately pace automated AI development

Pacing the frontier

1,132 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and other frontier labs signed a statement warning that AI is nearing the ability to automate AI research itself. They ask the U.S. government to back an international effort to build technical and governance tools that can deliberately pace frontier-wide progress. Signatories include OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan, and Meta Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao. The statement does not spell out specific tools or timelines—it aims to establish common knowledge that coordination to slow down may become necessary.

Why it matters: 1,132 employees from frontier labs—including OpenAI's chief scientist and John Schulman—publicly asking the US government to build tools to pace AI development. All three HKR axes hit: the headline pulls you in, the statement puts a concrete marker on 'close to automating AI r...