Sam Altman Backs Dario's Call to Pace the Frontier, Promises Independent Evaluators at OpenAI
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-13
Sam Altman publicly agreed with Dario Amodei's call to "pace the frontier," saying it has been a primary topic of internal OpenAI discussions in recent weeks. He also committed to giving independent evaluators employee-like model access, with more details to come. The exchange marks a rare alignment between the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier safety evaluation and release pacing.
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