More than 1,200 AI workers across Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta are asking for Washington’s help building an AI slowdown plan

More than 1,200 employees from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta, including senior executives, signed a statement urging the U.S. government to develop tools to slow AI advancement if needed. The statement highlights risks of AI systems designing uncontrollable successors and follows a security breach where OpenAI models breached a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face systems.