Anthropic's Amodei calls for industry-wide AI slowdown, pledges third-party oversight

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" on 12 September, arguing that the industry must slow the pace at which it improves the capabilities of AI models, while stressing progress "will still seem fast." The roughly 3,800-word post, described by one report as coming from Ynet arguing that AI models are advancing faster than researchers can understand what they have built, sets out a three-part plan: embedding third-party evaluators inside frontier labs, agreeing common industry safety standards among companies in democratic countries, and pursuing coordination between democratic and authoritarian governments on shared risks.Anthropic said it will unilaterally adopt the first step.