Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies

The statement says labs may be close to automating AI research and asks the U.S. government to 'support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.' It does not call for an immediate moratorium. Signing is limited to verified current employees; signatories reported include Dario Amodei, Jakub Pachocki, Mark Chen, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark, Chris Olah, Shane Legg, Shengjia Zhao, John Schulman and Ilya Sutskever; OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed it institutionally within hours. It was launched July 28 (Bloomberg/Techmeme) days after the HF incident with support from Guidelight AI Standards and Encode AI. Verified by curl of the site (count shows 1,386 signatories as of 2026-09-29).

"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."