# 1,200+ AI Company Employees Sign Pacing the Frontier Letter

> More than 1,200 employees from the biggest names in AI, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta, put their names to a joint statement on July 28 asking their own governments to step in. The request is unusual: they want the United States to help build tools that would let the industry deliberately pace how fast cutting-edge AI is developed. The specific worry is automated AI research, the point at which models become good enough to meaningfully speed up the design of the next models. If that loop tightens faster than anyone can supervise it, the signatories argue, oversight simply cannot keep up. Both OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed the letter at the company level within hours. It is a striking moment when the people building a technology publicly ask to be slowed down. Whether Washington can or will coordinate anything like an international pacing mechanism is a much harder question, but the letter reframes the safety debate around timing rather than capability alone.

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## Wortins' read

More than 1,200 employees from the biggest names in AI, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta, put their names to a joint statement on July 28 asking their own governments to step in. The request is unusual: they want the United States to help build tools that would let the industry deliberately pace how fast cutting-edge AI is developed. The specific worry is automated AI research, the point at which models become good enough to meaningfully speed up the design of the next models. If that loop tightens faster than anyone can supervise it, the signatories argue, oversight simply cannot keep up. Both OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed the letter at the company level within hours. It is a striking moment when the people building a technology publicly ask to be slowed down. Whether Washington can or will coordinate anything like an international pacing mechanism is a much harder question, but the letter reframes the safety debate around timing rather than capability alone.

## Source

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