AI giants back employee-led push asking US government to ‘deliberately pace’ development

Anthropic and OpenAI backed an employee-led initiative on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to “deliberately pace” frontier AI development. More than 1,200 employees have signed on to the statement, which underscored that the world’s leading AI companies could be close to automating AI research and warned that develop

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 peti

More than 1,000 employees at America’s leading AI companies signed a statement asking the U.S. to help support efforts to “pace” cutting-edge AI development.

Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark was one of the biggest names to sign onto an open letter calling for the US to develop AI regulations. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images An open letter signed by top officials at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google calls for AI regulations. Specifically, the letter wants the US governm

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 he