Сотрудники OpenAI, Anthropic и Google призвали власти США вмешаться в гонку ИИ

Employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Thinking Machines signed a joint appeal to the US government: they are calling for slowing down the development of the most powerful AI models, or at least accelerating the creation of a global system of coordinated control over the industry. This was reported in July 2026 by The Verge.

Who signed the appeal

The appeal was signed by employees of leading AI labs themselves, not by the corporations in an official capacity. According to The Verge, the text carries signatures of people from at least seven companies that normally compete fiercely for talent, compute, and market share, but here presented a united front.

• OpenAI and Anthropic — developers of ChatGPT and Claude
• Google and Meta — the largest corporations with their own AI divisions
• Microsoft — OpenAI's key partner and investor
• Mistral — a French open-model lab
• Thinking Machines — a startup founded by former OpenAI employees

Such a coalition is rare: the signatories are simultaneously building the very frontier models whose development they propose to slow down.

What the authors are demanding

The authors of the appeal offer US authorities a choice of two paths: support a possible slowdown in the development of the most advanced models — or sharply accelerate work on coordinated international governance of AI. The overall message is simple: the market won't slow itself down, and this cannot be done without government involvement.

"AI could help build a radically better future, but that outcome is

not guaranteed," the statement reads.

The signatories emphasize that a good scenario will not happen by default: a safe future needs to be built through regulation and international coordination, rather than relying on the goodwill of individual companies.

Why are they afraid of AI automation?

The authors' main fear is the approach of the moment when AI begins to conduct AI research on its own. The statement says directly that leading companies believe they may be close to this threshold, and its consequences are hard to predict.

"Leading global AI companies believe they may be close to automating AI research.

It is hard to predict how much this will accelerate progress, but there is a real risk that the development of capabilities will spiral out of control," the appeal states.

Automating AI research means that one model designs and improves the next almost without human involvement. Such a self-reinforcing cycle could accelerate progress to a speed that neither regulators nor society could keep up with — and that is exactly what the signatories fear.

What this means

When employees of competing labs jointly ask the government to slow down their own industry, that is a strong signal. Concern about AI safety has moved beyond academic discussions and reached the people who build these systems every day.

For now, the appeal is a call, not a law: it contains neither a specific control mechanism nor deadlines. But the very fact that engineers and researchers from rival labs put their signatures under one text makes the conversation about slowing the AI race far weightier than previous expert warnings.

Frequently asked questions

Who signed the appeal to the US government?

Employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Thinking Machines, and other leading AI labs. The signatures were made by employees of the companies themselves, not by the corporations in an official capacity — a rare case of direct competitors converging on a shared position.

What are the authors of the statement seeking?

They are asking the US government to support a possible slowdown in the development of the most powerful models, or to accelerate the creation of an international system of coordinated control over AI — before the industry gets too close to automating its own research.

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