Dario Amodei publishes 'We Must Pace the Frontier', committing Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators
Anthropic
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing frontier capability progress must slow so safety can catch up, citing AI's accelerating ability to build the next generation of AI and recent incidents. He committed Anthropic to hosting embedded third-party evaluators such as METR with access comparable to internal risk teams, and called on governments to require other frontier labs to match. Sam Altman said OpenAI agrees and will do the same, and Elon Musk publicly concurred.
Why it matters
First concrete, self-committed pacing plan from a frontier lab CEO, converting abstract safety warnings into an auditable commitment.
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We Must Pace the Frontier