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More than 1000 frontier lab employees have signed an open letter requesting 'that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development'.

https://www.pacingthefrontier.com

Includes many of the names you might expect but also some that surprised me such as OpenAI's Chief Scientist and Chief Research Officer as well as Meta's Chief Scientist. It appears to be focused on employees rather than CEOs - no CEOs have signed it but a few of the Anthropic cofounders have and it was shared by OpenAI's account on x.

Yes, he was added as a signatory after I signed this. Initially he was quite conspicuous by his absence.

Sam Altman hasn't yet signed, but used nearly identical language in an interview just before the letter came out: https://x.com/patrick_oshag/status/2082090998990270885

-2Alexander Jia3mo

I'm interested in how they plan to enforce global coordination and what's their strategy if China doesn't participate.

4I.M.J. McInnis3mo

There's no specific plan–––do open letters of this sort ever really have a specific plan? Anyways, there are many, many proposals for something (usually developed with an aim of "pause" rather than "pace," but it requires similar tech and governance). Ask your friendly local LLM.