1,100+ Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta Sign "Pacing the Frontier" Letter

Industry official + media 3 src. ~1 min

More than 1,100 employees across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta — including Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, and Google's Anca Dragan — published "Pacing the Frontier," asking the US government to help build international technical and governance tools for a coordinated, verifiable slowdown of automated AI development. OpenAI and Anthropic subsequently endorsed the statement as companies.

Why it matters

First cross-lab employee-driven push (rather than company PR) for a government-backed pacing mechanism, and it landed with two of the frontier labs endorsing it institutionally within a day.

Importance: 3/5

Cross-lab employee-driven policy statement with 1,100+ signatories, institutionally endorsed by OpenAI and Anthropic within a day; notable industry/policy moment though not a product release.

ai-safety policy open-letter cross-lab

Sources

official Pacing the Frontier — statement text and signatories

media OpenAI and Anthropic endorse call for government to 'pace' AI progress

secondary 1,134 AI staff ask the US for a way to pace AI