Anthropic CEO proposes 'pace the frontier' plan with embedded third-party auditors

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a "pace the frontier" plan that would embed third-party evaluators such as METR inside Anthropic to monitor the company's adherence to safety practices, according to TechCrunch and The Verge. Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed the field should decelerate its development pace.

Anthropic CEO proposes 'pace the frontier' plan with embedded third-party auditors According to TechCrunch and The Verge, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed a plan to slow AI development by giving third-party evaluators like METR access to Anthropic's models to monitor adherence to safety practices. Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman agreed the field should decelerate development pace. Topics Sources - Press Read article https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/anthropic-ceo-outlines-plan-to-pace-the-frontier/ Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.