Dario Amodei calls for pacing the AI frontier; Anthropic opens models to third-party evaluators
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-12
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a new essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing the AI industry should deliberately slow frontier model progress, backed by a three-part plan.
As the first step, Anthropic is unilaterally committing to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems — so they can verify adherence to safety measures, report incidents, and assess models' alignment during training.
This is the first concrete, actionable framework from a frontier lab on voluntarily pacing AI development rather than waiting for regulation, and it is likely to spark wide debate across the industry and safety community.
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