Employees of frontier AI companies · 2026-07
Pacing the Frontier
“The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research.”
- Who
- Employees of frontier AI companies
- Date
- 2026-07 (month only) The statement page gives only the month. OpenAI and Anthropic posted about it on X on 2026-07-28.
- Evidence
- Not rated. A signed statement asking for policy, with no measured result behind it. how we rate evidence
- Replication
- Nothing to rerun. all claims
- Checked
- 2026-10-26, against the source page
- Links
- Source
Also on the page
- The request: "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 page gives the count as "1,386 employees of frontier AI companies", with organizational support from two nonprofits, Guidelight AI Standards and Encode AI.
- OpenAI, in a post on X linking to the page: "We believe that, at some point in the future, AI acceleration for frontier model development may be so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement." It adds: "We hope to contribute to work led by the U.S. government, alongside other labs and the open-source community, to develop the tools and mechanisms that could make that possible."
- Anthropic, in a post on X: "We support this petition, signed by our CEO, several co-founders, and senior staff." The post goes on: "Our own research on recursive self-improvement, published last month, points to the need for tools to deliberately pace the frontier of AI development so society can prepare."