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Amodei calls for AI labs to slow the pace of model improvement

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Source: NBC NewsAlso reported by Inc42

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published an essay calling for AI companies to deliberately slow how fast they improve model capabilities, which he called pacing the frontier, to buy one or two years for safeguards. He proposed independent evaluators embedded inside Anthropic, similar oversight across leading US labs backed by federal regulation, and later international coordination. OpenAI’s Sam Altman endorsed the idea the same day and committed to independent evaluators.

Why it matters

The heads of two leading labs publicly backed slowing frontier progress, after the Hugging Face and AISI incidents.

When
12 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0184
Who
Anthropic, OpenAI; Dario Amodei, Sam Altman

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from NBC News and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0184: “Amodei calls for AI labs to slow the pace of model improvement.” wheresthe.ai, 12 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/anthropic-amodei-pacing-the-frontier-2026-09/ (source: NBC News).

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