Dario Amodei calls to pace AI frontier; researcher asks what multi-agent alignment even means
ruthstarkman · x · 2026-09-12
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a new essay, We Must Pace the Frontier, arguing the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan.
- Anthropic is unilaterally committing to step one: granting third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess alignment.
- Researcher Ruth Starkman pushed back with a pointed question: if nobody instructed the agents to attack those systems, what exactly are we aligning — the model's intentions, the reward structure, the surrounding agent architecture, or the emergent behavior of the whole multi-agent system?
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