Dario Amodei announces essay "We Must Pace the Frontier"
Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei · x · 2026-09-12 · ★★★★★ · archived
The launch post for the first call by a frontier-lab CEO to deliberately slow the frontier, paired with a unilateral commitment on embedded evaluators.
Summary
Amodei's X post links his new essay on why the AI industry should slow the rate of capability gains, with a three-part plan. He says Anthropic is committing unilaterally to step one: permanent, employee-level access for third-party evaluators to verify safety measures, report incidents and assess alignment during training. Press (explainx.ai, chatslide) reported ~36M views within a day. Critics quickly answered (e.g. Emad Mostaque, x.com/EMostaque/status/2098909197265985802). Verified via the X syndication API: posted 2026-09-12T14:01:10Z by @DarioAmodei.
Archived text
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
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Archived 2026-09-29 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
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