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AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started

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More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research

More than 1,200 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a petition calling for US government support to develop ways of slowing automated AI development if necessary.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Google DeepMind chief strategy officer Jasjeet Sekhon, and Meta AI chief scientist Shengjia Zhao are among the signatories to the petition, which calls for tools to "deliberately pace frontier-wide progress."

"The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research," the document states. They nevertheless have obvious commercial incentives to keep advancing the tech and marketing its perceived power.

The proposed answer is a combination of technical and governance tools that could apply the brakes if development begins outpacing industry's ability to understand or control the resulting systems.

"Each company – and country...

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AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models

Valve Updates Steam Machine Queue, Adds CAD Files And FSR 4.1 Support

The hiring results we measured when we deployed agentic AI

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