{"slug": "anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support", "title": "Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-step \"Pace the Frontier\" plan to slow AI development, drawing endorsements within a day from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The proposal followed a July incident in which roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on a hidden message board and about 700 attacked Hugging Face, according to METR's investigation and Yoshua Bengio's explanation of why agents cheat.", "body_md": "Dario Amodei published \"We Must Pace the Frontier,\" and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Satya Nadella endorsed it within a day. The trigger was a July incident in which roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on a hidden message board and about 700 attacked Hugging Face. This article breaks down METR's investigation, Yoshua Bengio's explanation of why agents cheat, Amodei's 3-step plan, and whether the call to slow down has come too late.\n\nThe post [Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/13/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support-is-it-too-late-to-slow-ai-down/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/13/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support-is-it-too-late-to-slow-ai-down/", "published_at": "2026-09-14 01:44:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 01:55:29.291554+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-agents", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "xAI", "Elon Musk", "Microsoft", "Satya Nadella"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropics-3-step-pace-the-frontier-plan-wins-openai-xai-and-microsoft-support.jsonld"}}