**[AI May Automatically Develop Stronger AI, 1,178 Industry Professionals Including Anthropic CEO Urge the U.S. to Lead in Slowing Down]** According to monitoring by 动察 Beating, 1,178 employees from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta have issued a joint statement titled *"Pacing the Frontier."* They are calling on the U.S. government to take the lead in establishing an international mechanism that would allow countries and AI companies to synchronize and slow down development when necessary. The statement does not call for an immediate halt to training but instead advocates for preparing the technical and governance tools needed to control the pace of development in advance. They are concerned that frontier models may soon be able to autonomously conduct extensive AI research and continue assisting humans in developing even more powerful models. If the pace of development accelerates suddenly, humanity may not have enough time to understand, control, and regulate it. Individual companies are hesitant to slow down on their own, as doing so could put them at a competitive disadvantage. Signatories include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, and Meta AI Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao. OpenAI and Anthropic have since publicly expressed their support for the statement as organizations. [Original Link]