# Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?

> 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: 2026-09-14 01:44:01+00:00

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.

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