More than 1,100 AI workers back tools to pace automated AI research

Signatories from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and other organisations asked the US government to support international technical and governance mechanisms that could deliberately slow frontier-wide automated AI development when emerging risks warrant more time.

Why it matters: The intervention focuses on feedback loops in which AI accelerates AI research, an area where empirical evidence and governance tools remain weak.

Impact: Boards should add capability-triggered pause criteria, incident escalation and external assurance to frontier-system governance, but should not represent employee signatures as formal company positions. Pacing the Frontier statement · a media report

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