Sam Altman backs Dario on 'pacing the frontier', OpenAI to grant independent evaluators access
steipete · x · 2026-09-13
- Sam Altman publicly agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that the AI frontier needs to be paced, calling it a primary topic of recent internal discussions at OpenAI.
- Altman committed OpenAI to granting independent evaluators employee-like model access, echoing Dario's proposal, with more details promised soon.
- NYT's Kevin Roose framed it as the moment "Sam and Dario agree on something" — a rare consensus between the two frontier lab CEOs on safety and pacing.
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