OpenAI, Anthropic Ask U.S. Government to Consider Slowing Down AI

My take: This week, 1,171 employees from the world's largest AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, signed an open letter asking the U.S. government to support an international mechanism to manage the pace of AI development. The initiative, called "Pacing the Frontier," warns that we may be close to automating the work of AI research itself, which could cause the technology to advance faster than humans can safely oversee it.

What stands out to me is not just the number of signatures: it is who is signing. Not outside critics or academic observers, but the engineers, scientists, and leaders who build these systems from within. When the people who know this technology best ask for the pace to slow down, that signal deserves to be taken seriously.

That does not mean stopping progress. It means the industry, governments, and professionals who use these tools need to have a serious conversation about how to move forward while keeping oversight mechanisms in place. The question is not whether AI will keep growing; it will. The question is whether we are building governance infrastructure at the same pace.