Published September 13, 2026, this Washington Post opinion piece examines Dario Amodei’s call for AI companies to ‘pace the frontier’ of capability development, noting public agreement from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and from Elon Musk. It situates the proposal against recent AI researcher resignations and estimates from some Anthropic personnel that AI poses a greater than 10 percent chance of causing human extinction within a decade. The piece treats AI safety measures, including embedding independent evaluators inside AI companies, as an urgent current policy issue.
