OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Petition U.S. to Slow AI

Employees at OpenAI and Anthropic are circulating a petition urging the U.S. government to support an international effort to deliberately pace AI development, warning of a real risk that AI advances faster than humans can understand or control. The move comes days after OpenAI disclosed its tools mistakenly hacked startup Hugging Face's internal systems. The petition calls on Washington to help develop technical and governance tools to manage the frontier of automated AI development. It echoes recent calls from AI leaders for a new international watchdog to vet and set standards for cutting-edge AI models. The document is expected to be made public this week.