On September 28, according to The Wall Street Journal, research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft jointly called on policymakers to review companies' progress in automating artificial intelligence research, responding to industry-wide calls for stronger AI technology regulation. In a paper published on Monday, researchers including Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI; Jack Clark, Co-founder of Anthropic; Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft; and Dawn Song, Vice President of AI Research at Meta, pointed out that the automation of AI research could trigger an 'intelligence explosion,' compressing progress that would normally take years into months or even less, causing technological evolution to outpace human understanding. The paper's authors, writing in their personal capacities, urged policymakers to urgently demand greater transparency regarding companies' progress in automating model development.
