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# Dario Amodei publishes "Policy on the AI Exponential", calling for binding frontier-AI regulation

On June 10, 2026, the day after Claude Fable 5 launched, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "Policy on the AI Exponential". The essay argues that AI is advancing faster than policy can follow. It calls for an FAA-like regime with mandatory third-party testing of frontier models and government power to block dangerous releases, and it covers job displacement, civil liberties and a chip-supply coalition of democracies.

## Key facts
- Published June 10, 2026 on darioamodei.com (announced on X the same day)
- Five areas: frontier safety regulation, job displacement/macro policy, beneficial science, civil liberties, democratic leadership in the AI race
- Endorses mandatory third-party testing and government authority to block models with unacceptable cyber, bio or autonomy risk
- Anthropic pledged 'substantial financial backing' for a frontier-testing bill and a job-displacement framework
- ABC News exclusive (June 10, interviewer Mason Leath): Amodei said Anthropic is 'proposing giving the government the ability to, again, in a narrow way, block deployment of unsafe technology', announced a $200M investment in research on AI's impact on society, floated wage reinsurance and better unemployment benefits near-term and capital-gains or AI-company taxes later, and on a global pause said 'I don't trust China at all'

## What happened

Amodei laid out a policy agenda that moved Anthropic from supporting transparency rules to backing enforceable pre-deployment testing. Two days later the US government used export controls to suspend Fable 5. In September he followed up with "We Must Pace the Frontier".

## Why it matters

It is the most concrete regulatory program a frontier-lab CEO had published up to then, and it set up the three-step pacing plan that followed three months later.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 41 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 71 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 10 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [Dario Amodei: Policy on the AI Exponential](https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential) (darioamodei.com, official)
2. [Dario Amodei on X announcing the essay](https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2064781775247950326) (x.com, official)
3. [ABC News: Exclusive: Anthropic CEO calls for stronger regulation of AI (June 10)](https://abcnews.com/Business/exclusive-anthropic-ceo-calls-stronger-regulation-ai/story?id=133753620) (abcnews.com, press)
4. [Kingy AI: Safety plan or blueprint for regulatory capture?](https://kingy.ai/news/dario-amodeis-policy-on-the-ai-exponential-safety-plan-or-blueprint-for-ai-regulatory-capture/) (kingy.ai, discussion)

## Changes

- 2026-10-04: Added the same-day ABC News interview ($200M societal-impact research, 'narrow' government power to block unsafe deployments); it re
- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-09-12: [Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-12-dario-amodei-pace-the-frontier/index.md)
- 2026-06-09: [Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-09-claude-fable-5-mythos-5/index.md)
- 2026-01-26: [Dario Amodei publishes "The Adolescence of Technology", a long essay on the risks of powerful AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-26-dario-amodei-adolescence-of-technology/index.md)
- People: [Dario Amodei](https://postcutoff.com/person/dario-amodei/)
- Archived: 2 posts, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-10-dario-amodei-policy-on-the-ai-exponential/index.json