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AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
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Industry leaders from major AI labs have issued a formal request for U.S. government intervention in frontier AI development. The group advocates for either a strategic slowdown or accelerated global governance to manage potential systemic risks.
- 01Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta support increased oversight of automated intelligence
- 02The statement proposes a coordinated international framework for governing advanced AI models
- 03Advocates emphasize balancing AI potential with the urgent need for regulatory safeguards
- 04Signatories include representatives from Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines among other leading labs
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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 supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]