AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

<figure> <img alt="Photo illustration of a computer with a brain on the screen." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25362061/STK_414_AI_CHATBOT_R2_CVirginia_D.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the employees wrote in a statement. "The world's leading Al companies believe they could be close to automating Al research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate Al progress, but there is a real risk that capability development …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/972161/ai-leaders-us-government-openai-anthropic-google-meta">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>