AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started
They nevertheless have obvious commercial incentives to keep advancing the tech and marketing its perceived power. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The proposed answer is a combination of technical and governance tools that could apply the brakes if development begins outpacing industry's ability to understand or control the resulting systems. OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman described it as "a thoughtful proposal." This is a warmer reception than OpenAI gave Brussels' own attempt at guardrails via the AI Act.
- ▪They nevertheless have obvious commercial incentives to keep advancing the tech and marketing its perceived power.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); The proposed answer is a combination of technical and governance tools that could apply the brakes if development begins outpacing industry's
- ▪OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman described it as "a thoughtful proposal." This is a warmer reception than OpenAI gave Brussels' own attempt at guardrails via the AI Act.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); AI AND ML AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research Richard Speed Richard Speed MICROSOFT ECOSYSTEM REPORTER Published wed 29 Jul 2026 // 13:11 UTC More than 1,200 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a petition calling for US government support to develop ways of slowing automated AI development if necessary.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist…
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