Anthropic's CEO calls for a slower AI frontier, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk say they agree

Three of the industry's loudest voices spent Saturday arguing for the same thing: less speed.

In a post titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei wrote that the industry must slow the pace at which it improves the capabilities of AI models. He committed his company, unilaterally, to embedding third-party evaluators with employee-like access, including badges, desks and laptops comparable to its internal risk teams, plus the right to publish findings without Anthropic's editorial control, a step he called a quite radical practice that goes far beyond what any AI company is doing today. The post also proposed common safety standards across frontier labs, built on capability checkpoints that would require alignment certifications before a model advances. TechCrunch reported that OpenAI's Sam Altman said he agrees that the industry needs to pace the frontier and that OpenAI would implement embedded evaluators, and that Elon Musk responded, "Dario is right."