It is not the AI labs asking to slow down. It is 1,171 of their emplo…
1,171 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Thinky signed a call to pace AI development, in a personal capacity. Three details that flip the story, and what they do to the wait-for-the-next-model strategy.
On 29 July, 1,171 people working at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Thinky co-signed a call asking the US government to build the tools needed to deliberately pace automated AI development. Read quickly, it looks like an industry easing off. Read properly, it says the opposite, and that second reading is the one that matters when you own a roadmap. What it means for you (PM, PO, founder): the "let's wait, the next version will fix it" strategy rests on an assumption about pace that nobody ever guaranteed you. This week: pull out the features you parked while waiting for a more capable model, and settle one of them with what exists today. Why now: the people building these systems are publicly asking for a brake while their employers keep shipping. · · · <!-- order:freeform…