In a roughly 3,800-word essay published September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that AI companies should deliberately slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities so that safety measures have time to keep up. He proposes three steps: giving independent third-party evaluators employee-level access inside AI labs, coordinating common safety standards among democratic nations, and pursuing safety cooperation with authoritarian governments. Amodei cites recent alignment incidents and AI’s growing ability to accelerate its own development as justification for pacing rather than halting progress.
