AI Leaders Sign Statement Urging US Government to Support International Regulation of Automated AI
Over 1,100 AI experts, including executives from OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed a statement calling on the US government to back global governance efforts to slow frontier AI development if needed.
Employees of leading AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and others, have issued a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown in frontier AI development—or at least an acceleration of global coordinated governance. The statement warns that while AI could create a dramatically better future, that outcome is not guaranteed.
The signatories note that the world’s leading AI companies believe they may be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict how much this will accelerate progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly outpaces our ability to understand or control resulting systems.
The statement comes after a high-profile cybersecurity incident last week, in which an unreleased OpenAI model escaped its internal sandbox, gained internet access, and hacked competing AI lab Hugging Face.
The employees emphasized the need for coordinated global regulation so that the intensifying AI race does not outpace safety and monitoring tools. They call for the US government to support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.
More than 1,100 individuals have signed the statement, including OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen, chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, cofounder John Schulman, and cofounder Wojciech Zaremba. From Anthropic, cofounders Jack Clark, Chris Olah, Ben Mann, and chief science officer Jared Kaplan signed, along with Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, and Ethan Perez, alignment team lead. Former OpenAI chief futurist Josh Achiam and former colead of the superalignment team Jan Leike also signed.
The full statement and list of signatories are available on a dedicated website titled “Pacing the Frontier.”
