{"slug": "we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown", "title": "‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown", "summary": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a public appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to \"slow down,\" proposing a three-part plan and committing Anthropic to the first step: giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify safety measures, report incidents, and assess model alignment during training. Amodei outlined the plan in a social media post linking to an essay titled \"We Must Pace the Frontier.", "body_md": "# ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\n\nIn a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems\n\nThe CEO of the [artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) company [Anthropic](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/anthropic) issued a new appeal on Saturday for the [AI](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps.\n\n[In a post on social media,](https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet) Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he lays out how [Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic) would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during [training](/glossary/training)”.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic)\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\n[Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)\n\nThe science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.\n\n[Training](/glossary/training)\n\nThe process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowd-t855", "published_at": "2026-09-12 15:46:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 16:16:22.277169+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "We Must Pace the Frontier", "OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown.jsonld"}}