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I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned
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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 .
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Source: The Guardian · Miles Brundage. Published 21 Aug 2026, 10:00 am.
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