# Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes detailed plan to slow AI development

> Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, has laid out a three-step plan for what he calls pacing the frontier, arguing the industry should deliberately slow the race toward ever more powerful systems. The centerpiece is a call for third-party evaluators who would sit inside AI companies with something close to employee-level access, checking models before they ship. Amodei frames the goal plainly, buying time for alignment and safety work to catch up with capability. What makes the moment notable is who is nodding along. Within days, Sam Altman said he agreed on the need to pace development and pledged independent oversight at OpenAI, and even Elon Musk chimed in that Dario is right. Rare public alignment among rival lab leaders suggests the safety conversation has shifted from fringe worry to boardroom strategy. The skeptical read is that coordinated slowdowns are easy to endorse and hard to enforce, and that they conveniently favor incumbents. Still, having the people building these systems argue openly for guardrails, rather than just speed, is a meaningful change in tone worth watching closely.

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## Wortins' read

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, has laid out a three-step plan for what he calls pacing the frontier, arguing the industry should deliberately slow the race toward ever more powerful systems. The centerpiece is a call for third-party evaluators who would sit inside AI companies with something close to employee-level access, checking models before they ship. Amodei frames the goal plainly, buying time for alignment and safety work to catch up with capability. What makes the moment notable is who is nodding along. Within days, Sam Altman said he agreed on the need to pace development and pledged independent oversight at OpenAI, and even Elon Musk chimed in that Dario is right. Rare public alignment among rival lab leaders suggests the safety conversation has shifted from fringe worry to boardroom strategy. The skeptical read is that coordinated slowdowns are easy to endorse and hard to enforce, and that they conveniently favor incumbents. Still, having the people building these systems argue openly for guardrails, rather than just speed, is a meaningful change in tone worth watching closely.

## Source

[Read the full story at The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994337/anthropic-ceo-slow-down-ai-development)

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