Over 1,100 AI Lab Employees Tell US Government: We May Be Close to Automating AI Research

More than 1,100 employees from seven AI labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, and Mistral — signed "Pacing the Frontier," a statement to the US government calling for coordinated international governance of frontier AI development. The statement warns that "the world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research," risking capability gains outpacing human control.