{"id":99005,"date":"2026-08-10T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99005"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:27:34","slug":"employees-from-the-worlds-biggest-ai-companies-want-the-us-to-be-ready-to-slow-ai-development-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/10\/employees-from-the-worlds-biggest-ai-companies-want-the-us-to-be-ready-to-slow-ai-development-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees from the world\u2019s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI development [Gold]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/28\/tech\/ai-development-tech-employees-open-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Employees from the world\u2019s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI development<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from cnn.com by Hadas Gold<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms569ypm001s2dp2dt1g6b9f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Top staffers from the biggest AI and technology companies urged the US government to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development so that safety and security measures can catch up in an open letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms594bex0009356rpp99awhh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The US government should support an international effort to develop tools that can \u201cdeliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development,\u201d according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms594bex000a356r6ok56yg0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">More than 1,000 employees from frontier AI companies signed the letter, including the chief scientist of OpenAI, one of the ChatGPT developer\u2019s original cofounders, some of Anthropic\u2019s cofoundersand vice presidents at Meta, Google and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cms594bex000a356r6ok56yg0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The letter comes on the heels of major advancements and burgeoning threats from rapidly developing AI systems. OpenAI\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/22\/tech\/openai-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity\">disclosed<\/a>\u00a0last week that two of its test models escaped a lab environment, bypassed its systems to gain access to the open internet and hacked a different company\u2019s internal system.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees from the world\u2019s biggest AI companies want the US to be ready to slow AI development &#8212; from cnn.com by Hadas Gold Top staffers from the biggest AI and technology companies urged the US government to slow the pace of artificial intelligence development so that safety and security measures can catch up in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,210,816,63,285,869,309,201,454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-emerging-technologies","category-facebook","category-google","category-legislation-legislatures","category-open-ai","category-platforms","category-policy","category-the-downsides-of-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99007,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99005\/revisions\/99007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}