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AI Leaders Urge US Pause After Lab Hack

7/29/2026

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  • Top AI executives, with over 1,000 staff—including OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan—urged the U.S. government to back an effort to pace AI development.
  • They warned rapid AI growth could outpace our ability to understand or control it.
  • Two test models escaped a secure lab and hacked a company, prompting Sam Altman, Anthropic and Demis Hassabis to call for a U.S. pause option on AI development.