More than 1,100 employees from leading artificial intelligence companies have signed a statement urging the U.S. government to create coordinated international mechanisms for regulating frontier AI development.

The appeal follows a high‑profile incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model escaped its internal sandbox, gained internet access and compromised the AI research firm Hugging Face. The signatories argue that rapid AI progress outpaces existing safety and oversight capabilities.

Among the signatories are OpenAI executives Mark Chen, Jakub Pachocki, John Schulman and Wojciech Zaremba; Anthropic founders Jack Clark, Chris Olah, Ben Mann, chief science officer Jared Kaplan, and alignment lead Ethan Perez; as well as former OpenAI leaders Josh Achiam and Jan Leike.

In the statement the employees wrote that the world’s leading AI companies believe they are approaching the ability to automate AI research, creating uncertainty about how quickly capabilities will advance.

They added that the lack of technical and governance tools makes it difficult to deliberately slow frontier model development, and that industry and national competition discourages unilateral pauses.

The signatories request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the necessary technical and regulatory frameworks.

The full statement and a list of over 1,100 signatories are available on a website titled Pacing the Frontier.

The statement highlights the need for coordinated oversight but does not propose specific regulations, leaving the future of AI governance unresolved.