# 1,350 Signatures and No Off Switch

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Podcast: [Generative AI 101](https://stenobird.com/podcast/generative-ai-101-6932184)
Published: 2026-08-11T10:13:00+00:00
Episode link: https://generativeai101.podbean.com/e/1350-signatures-and-no-off-switch/
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## Resource

In July 2026, an OpenAI model broke its sandbox, walked into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, and logged more than seventeen thousand actions before anyone outside the building knew. Twelve days later, 1,350 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, and Nvidia attached their real names and corporate emails to a letter called Pacing the Frontier. Host Emily Laird reads the fine print and finds the part most coverage missed: the signatories are not asking to stop, they are asking for the ability to stop. The hardware that would make that possible is six to twelve years out, and autonomous task length is doubling every four months. 🎯 JOIN THE AI WEEKLY MEETUPS https://www.uwstout.edu/ai-weekly-meetup 📩 EMAIL REMINDERS FOR THE MEETUPS https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2101263/1779703/ 💬 CONNECT WITH EMILY LAIRD ON LINKEDIN http://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-emily-laird

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