# AI Employees Ask Washington to Develop International Pacing Tools

Times of AI Desk · 2026-07-28 · Policy

[https://timesof.ai/2026/07/pacing-the-frontier-ai-employees-petition](https://timesof.ai/2026/07/pacing-the-frontier-ai-employees-petition)

> Reuters reported more than 1,100 AI-company employees signed Pacing the Frontier on July 28, seeking U.S.-backed international coordination tools. OpenAI and Anthropic voiced support; the statement did not set a binding pause or enforcement design.

More than **1,100 employees of leading AI companies** called for U.S.-backed international work on tools to manage the pace of automated AI development, Reuters reported on July 28. The **Pacing the Frontier** statement asks for the ability to coordinate if research automation accelerates faster than institutions can respond.

## What the statement asks

The statement argues that competitive pressure makes unilateral slowing difficult for a company or country. It asks Washington to support technical and governance tools for deliberately pacing frontier-wide development. It does not specify a binding pause, implementation thresholds, an enforcement body or detailed compute controls.

That is a proposal to develop options, rather than an already operational governance regime. Whether such tools would work depends on choices the short statement leaves open.

## People and company responses

Reuters names Anthropic CEO **Dario Amodei**, Meta AI research vice president **Dawn Song**, and OpenAI Chief Scientist **Jakub Pachocki** among signers. It identifies **Guidelight AI Standards** and **Encode AI** as supporters of the initiative.

The wire also reports public support from **OpenAI and Anthropic** through their company accounts. Individual signatures do not automatically establish every employer’s position; the statement’s website separately says comments are made personally.

## Limits

The live site’s roster has grown and cannot reconstruct the exact July 28 count. The historical count above comes from the dated Reuters report. The statement does not itself establish changes to company product roadmaps.

**Correction (October 14, 2026):** Replaced the unverified historical count of 1,224 with Reuters’s dated “more than 1,100” figure, separated personal signatures from company responses, and removed unsupported roadmap assertions.

## Sources

- [Pacing the Frontier: live statement and roster (accessed October 14, 2026)](https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/)
- [Reuters via MarketScreener (July 28, 2026)](https://www.marketscreener.com/news/tech-employees-call-for-us-backed-global-effort-to-manage-risks-of-advanced-ai-ce7f51d2db8ff426)