Overview
July 2026 public statement (pacingthefrontier.com) signed by 1,224 employees of frontier AI companies requesting U.S. government support for international pacing-mechanisms around automated-ai-research. Employee signatories — not automatically corporate policy unless separately endorsed.
Contradiction: Early coverage used “1,100+”; primary site count is 1,224. Prefer primary. Signatures ≠ lab corporate endorsement by default.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-28: Letter published; coverage by The Verge, THE DECODER, TNW; named signatories include jakub-pachocki, mark-chen, jared-kaplan, jack-clark, boris-cherny, Dario Amodei (2026-07-29-pacing-frontier-ai-employees-open-letter)
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- automated-ai-research
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