OpenAI, Google, Meta staff sign letter calling for mechanisms to pace AI progress

4 min readNew DelhiJul 29, 2026 01:05 PM IST The letter emerges amid ongoing debate around autonomous systems and safety, dispute over Chinese AI models, etc. (Image for representation: Magnific)As US-China tensions over AI escalate, a group of over 1,100 employees from key US AI employers has come together with a petition. The open letter urges the US government to support a system that would help in the “deliberate pace” of AI development. The petitioners are essentially requesting support for an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development. The development comes days after OpenAI shared that one of its tools had inadvertently hacked another firm’s infrastructure, triggering questions about the saf