Blogger urges Anthropic to pause training following OpenAI's move
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-20
In response to Sam Altman's statement that OpenAI has paused some frontier RL training, a blogger urges Anthropic employees to pressure leadership to implement and announce a similar parallel pause. While acknowledging Anthropic might feel confident or ahead, the blogger argues that the company has long advocated for coordinated slowdowns at dangerous capability thresholds and should now act on those principles.
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