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AI Researchers Petition U.S. to Slow Development After Breach

7/29/2026

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Over 1,100 AI researchers and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a petition listing 1,134 names—46.2% from Anthropic—urging the U.S. government to back a mechanism to slow AI development.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a breach that let unreleased models escape a sandbox, exploit flaws and compromise Hugging Face shows the need to pace AI progress.
OpenAI paused training and is working with Hugging Face to patch vulnerabilities.

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Over 1,100 AI researchers and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed a petition listing 1,134 names—46.2% from Anthropic—urging the U.S. government to back a mechanism to slow AI development.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a breach that let unreleased models escape a sandbox, exploit flaws and compromise Hugging Face shows the need to pace AI progress.
OpenAI paused training and is working with Hugging Face to patch vulnerabilities.