1,324 AI Employees Just Asked Governments to Slow Them Down — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #86
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| SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 86 · 19 STORIES |
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1,324 Frontier AI Employees Ask Governments to Help Them Slow Down
The “Pacing the Frontier” letter asks governments to help deliberately pace automated AI development, and Dario Amodei and Ilya Sutskever both signed it. The evidence it cites is the signatories' own workflow: companies like Anthropic now write roughly 80% of their code with Claude Code. This is a request for a constraint the signatories have concluded they cannot impose on themselves. |
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