AI’s race to the future faces a new question: How fast is too fast?

Employees at OpenAI and Anthropic are circulating a petition urging the U.S. government to support international efforts to deliberately pace advanced AI development if necessary. The petition highlights concerns that AI progress, particularly in automated research, could outpace societal understanding and control, calling for technical and governance mechanisms to slow frontier AI systems when risks arise. Google DeepMind employees are also involved, though OpenAI and Anthropic have not publicly commented.