Proposals to 'Pace' Frontier AI Model Development Have Lawmakers, Industry Divided

Proposals to 'pace' frontier AI model development have lawmakers, industry divided

Dario Amodei, chief executive of artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, has called for the industry to collectively slow the pace of frontier AI development, bringing a debate over the risks of increasingly capable models into sharper public focus as lawmakers, industry leaders and the Trump administration weigh how -- or whether -- the government should respond. “I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models …

Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition

Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome. The safety breach disclosed by OpenAI after a swarm of its agents coordinated…

Amodei’s Pacing Framework Is Not a Pause — It’s an Operating Model for the Frontier

Safety is the new moat. When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier, he presented a three-step plan — embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global alignment — as a necessary response to existential risk. Yet, beneath the veneer of altruistic risk management, the proposal functions as a sophisticated operating model. By institutionalizing industry-wide coordination, the framework threatens to transform a safety…

We Must Pace the Frontier

(Dario Amodei) – Along with my co-founders and employees, I have grappled with this duality of risk and benefit since the beginning of Anthropic. Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless. We have sought a middle way: to show that it’s possible to build carefully and succeed commercially, and to make safety something on which AI compa…