1,171 AI Researchers Ask U.S. Government to Support Pace Control
The statement signals that leading AI labs now publicly back government involvement in controlling automated research, while critics note signatories may continue their own development.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
John Schulman, Jakob Pachocki, Dario Amodei, and 1,168 other scientists and employees of AI companies issued a statement requesting U.S. government support for developing tools to regulate automated AI development. They argue rapid capability growth could produce systems humans cannot understand or control. The statement, called Pacing the Frontier, seeks international technical and governance mechanisms.
The statement, published at Pacing the Frontier, argues that automation of AI research is imminent and that predicting its acceleration is impossible. The signatories warn that rapid capability development could create AI systems beyond human understanding or control.
Schulman said he signed to build common understanding that control mechanisms may be necessary as automated research accelerates. He hopes labs will design such mechanisms voluntarily before government intervention. Meta AI chief scientist Shengjia Zhao said AI is advancing faster than society can keep up, and that superhuman AI at top institutions is imminent, bringing unprecedented risks.
The tiny corp, an AI hardware and inference engine developer, noted that signatories may ask others to slow down while continuing their own work, citing Elon Musk's past pause request and GPU purchases. Musk and SpaceXAI did not sign the statement.
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