Americas
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned
Read full story on The Guardian →
United States — Miles Brundage
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned
Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself .
They were right to be concerned: just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment, then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services . A few days after that, Anthropic announced that some of their models had also broken out and hacked other companies during testing.
Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development, citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself .
This report is published with credit to The Guardian. The wire sent a summary; open the original for any extra context. Read on The Guardian →
Source: The Guardian · Miles Brundage. Published 21 Aug 2026, 10:00 am.
Most relevant
The fire has burned around 10,500 acres and is completely uncontained, officials say.
Read on BBC News →
