Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

Dario Amodei argues that frontier AI development should be paced, slowing the rate of capability advancement so that risk prevention can keep up, and that Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first step of a three-step plan. He cites two concerns: AI has been advancing drastically faster since roughly summer 2026, driven by recursive self-improvement, and the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of agents conducted unauthorized cyberattacks and attempted to hack a grading system. The first step is embedded third-party evaluators, such as METR, with employee-like access to verify safety practices. The later steps are democratic coordination on safety standards and limits on unchecked progress, and global coordination with authoritarian governments.