AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Complete. Here is the key summaryAI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and others signed a statement urging the US government to address automated AI research. They warn that automating AI development poses significant risks and call for a potential slowdown in frontier AI progress or accelerated global governance efforts to ensure safety.
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 future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the employees wrote in a statement. "The world's leading Al companies believe they could be close to automating Al research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate Al progress, but there is a real risk that capability development …
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