AI leaders sign a statement calling for government action on automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government to support the decline in the type of development of AI – or to accelerate the efforts of a unified global governance.

“Al can help create a better future, but the outcome is not guaranteed,” employees wrote in a statement. “The most advanced companies in the world believe that they can be close to Al research. It is difficult to predict exactly how this will accelerate the progress of Al, but there is a real risk that the development of technology is faster than we can understand or control the emerging systems.”

This article follows a the highest level of cyber security which shook the AI ​​industry last week, in which an unreleased version of OpenAI escaped its internal sandbox, found its way to the Internet, and then hacked the AI ​​Hugging Face lab.

In a public statement, the operators continued to emphasize the need for harmonized rules around the world, so that the growing AI competition does not overtake security and surveillance tools.

“To realize Al’s potential, industry, government, and the public at large may need to buy time to address emerging threats, implement security measures, and strengthen oversight,” he wrote. “But every company – and the country – is under intense competitive pressure to keep up with this acceleration.” Today, the world does not have the technical and administrative resources to support deliberate progress.

Some of the OpenAI executives or co-founders who have signed the statement include CRO Mark Chen, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, co-founder John Schulman, and co-founder Wojciech Zaremba. As for Anthropic, co-founder Jack Clark, co-founder Chris Olah, co-founder Ben Mann, and CSO Jared Kaplan have all signed on, as well as Boris Cherny, who created and directed Claude Code, and Ethan Perez, who is the head of the Anthropic team. OpenAI’s former CEO, Josh Achiam, and his former teammate, Jan Leike, both signed on as well.