[AINews] Fearing RSI: OpenAI, Anthropic, GDM, Meta, Thinky cosign letter to "Pace" AI development, as HuggingFace details Machine-Speed Offensive Cyberattack
1,171 frontier AI employees urge U.S. government to internationally pace automated AI development
“AI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed. The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”— Elon Musk
Over 1,100 employees across nearly all major frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta) have cosigned a letter warning that automated AI research could soon accelerate beyond human understanding or control, and requesting U.S. government support for international tools to deliberately pace frontier AI development. This is significant because it represents an industry-wide internal acknowledgment that recursive self-improvement is a near-term risk, not a theoretical one. The move echoes the 2023 pause letter but carries far more institutional weight, coming from within the labs themselves rather than from outsiders.