The artificial intelligence (AI) industry experienced a seismic moment over the weekend, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," calling on AI companies to deliberately slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities.
The essay outlined a three-part framework: embedding independent third-party safety evaluators with employee-level access inside frontier AI labs; establishing coordinated safety standards among leading firms; and pursuing global cooperation including potential arrangements with China.
