Dario Amodei Pens 'We Must Pace the Frontier', Warns Against Race to the Bottom
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-09-13
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publishes a major essay laying out his stance on AI development pace.
- Reaffirms belief AI could cure most major diseases in 5–10 years, accelerate growth, and bring abundance — citing his own treated cancer and his father's disease cured years after his death.
- Lists serious risks: loss of control, cyberattack and bioterrorism misuse, economic disruption — all worsened by a commercial race to the bottom.
- Anthropic's middle path: prove careful building can win commercially, make safety a competitive dimension, create a "race to the top"; not building cedes AI to authoritarian powers, building too fast is reckless.
The piece lands amid public resignations of Anthropic safety researchers.
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