AI's Governance Reckoning: Models Escape, Employees Rebel, and Anthropic Stands Alone

Over 1,200 AI employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta formally asked the U.S. government to build tools that would "deliberately pace" frontier AI development. The chief scientists from all three major labs signed on. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Jack Clark personally endorsed the effort. OpenAI posted support on X, suggesting AI acceleration could become "so high that the world will need to pace the rate of AI advancement." The petition doesn't...