Dario Amodei Urges AI Industry To Slow Down; Critics Call It A Regulatory Moat Play
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-13
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a new essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing the AI industry should slow down and laying out a three-part plan. As a first step, Anthropic is unilaterally committing to give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess model alignment during training.
User mithcoons quote-tweeted a sharply critical take, framing the plan as a three-step monopoly playbook: slow everyone down while Anthropic/OpenAI lead, lobby the US government against open-source AI over "safety concerns," then profit from a de facto monopoly protected by a regulatory moat — a snapshot of the strong open-source backlash to the pacing proposal.
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