Tech employees call for US-backed global effort to manage risks of advanced AI

July 28 : More than 1,100 employees from leading tech firms on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop tools for managing the pace of advanced AI development.The statement comes as AI companies pursue increasingly powerful systems, raising concerns that developments could outpace existing safety, governance and oversight mechanisms.Here are some more details:• The initiative, called Pacing the Frontier, includes employees from Meta Platforms, Anthropic, OpenAI and Alphabet's Google, with support from nonprofits Guidelight AI Standards and Encode AI. • "We request 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," the statement sa