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Anthropic's CEO called on labs to pace the frontier, and OpenAI and xAI said they agreed
Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that the industry should slow how fast it improves model capabilities until safety work catches up. He said pacing did not mean halting training, but giving labs time to align and safeguard models and letting outside evaluators confirm it. He proposed evaluators embedded inside labs, US rules that bind every frontier developer, and eventually coordination with China. Sam Altman said OpenAI would match Anthropic's first commitment; Elon Musk posted that Amodei was right.
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The statement sets a public position to compare with later releases and safety disclosures. Incident counts alone cannot show whether development has slowed.
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- primaryWe Must Pace the FrontierDario Amodei · Sept. 12, 2026darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
- newsAmodei calls to 'pace the frontier'; Altman and Musk agreeNYU Shanghai RITS · September 2026rits.shanghai.nyu.edu/ai/amodei-calls-to-pace-the-frontier-altman-and-musk-agre…
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Paperclip Index. “Anthropic's CEO called on labs to pace the frontier, and OpenAI and xAI said they agreed.” Signal SG-0010. Reported Sept. 12, 2026; updated Oct. 7, 2026. https://paperclipindex.com/signal/SG-0010