Anthropic CEO Calls for an AI Slowdown. Is It Possible?
Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier“, calling on the AI industry, governments, and international bodies to slow the pace of AI capability development before safety research can catch up. It’s the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2026
Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier“, calling on the AI industry, governments, and international bodies to slow the pace of AI capability development before safety research can catch up. It’s the most detailed public statement Amodei has made on AI risk, and it coincides with a wave of high-profile resignations from safety researchers inside Anthropic and OpenAI.
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