Major AI Labs Urge US Government Action on Frontier AI Development Risks
A coalition of employees from leading AI laboratories—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, and Mistral—has submitted a statement to the US government calling for action on frontier AI development. The statement acknowledges both the potential for AI to "help create a dramatically better future" while warning that "that outcome is not guaranteed."
The signatories suggest they may be approaching a milestone in AI capability: the automation of AI research itself. While they note it is difficult to predict exactly how much this would accelerate AI progress, the statement warns there is "real risk that capability development" could become difficult to manage without coordinated governance.
The appeal stops short of explicitly calling for a development moratorium, instead framing the need as either a slowdown of frontier AI work or an acceleration of "global coordinated governance efforts." The statement reflects ongoing tension within the AI industry between advancing capabilities rapidly and addressing concerns about existential or systemic risks from increasingly autonomous AI systems.
The initiative represents a notable moment of collective advocacy from within the companies most directly involved in frontier AI development, signaling that even those building these systems see a need for governance frameworks to keep pace with capability growth.