AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

More than 1,100 AI workers from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral signed a letter to the US government. The statement advocates for tools to pace the frontier of automated AI development or accelerate global coordinated governance. These professionals express concerns that frontier AI models might soon possess the capability to improve themselves, a development that could drastically alter the future of AI and necessitates immediate government intervention to manage the speed of progress.