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September 12, 2026, 5:05 PM

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Dario Amodei:
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments  —  I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
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Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same  —  I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
Ben Johansen / Politico:
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the immediate slowdown of artificial intelligence development, warning that recent advances in AI have begun to outpace the industry's ability …
Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months  —  The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
Bloomberg:
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify  —  Leaders of the world's biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it's time to slow the development pace of their most advanced …
Dario Amodei / @darioamodei:
Amodei says Anthropic is “unilaterally committing” to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures  —  We Must Pace the Frontier: I've written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We'll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that the...
Jason Ma / Fortune:
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public”  —  Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg:
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting  —  The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression.  It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks”  —  The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack
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