Essay by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei arguing frontier AI developers should deliberately slow capability gains, outlining a three-step pacing plan.
Anthropic pledged employee-level access for outside evaluators and OpenAI matched within hours. The two steps that ask labs to build less depend on rivals and governments agreeing a pace, and on taking each other's word for it.
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Neither Washington nor Beijing endorsed the proposal behind this month's frontier-lab consensus, which asks for evaluators inside labs, coordinated capability thresholds and international deals and ties how much anyone slows to how far ahead the US already is.
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Dario Amodei's pacing essay went to Washington as a coordination problem. Over the following three days, four current and former federal officials answered it in public, and their subject was liability.
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Dario Amodei's essay has endorsements from Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. No lab has named a model that will arrive later, and none has said how much later, so your release-date assumptions hold until one does.
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Chainguard says fix generation was never its bottleneck and that responsible disclosure at scale is, so its first public batch is built from bugs upstreams quietly fixed years ago and never filed CVEs for.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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Sam Altman endorsed the pacing proposal within a day and Elon Musk backed it too, while David Sacks says labs could slow voluntarily and Anatoly Yakovenko puts the motive at profitability at a $1 trillion market cap.
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The Anthropic CEO's September 2026 essay dates the cure of most major disease to roughly 2031 to 2036. He used the same five-to-ten-year width in 2024, when counting from the publication date ended it in 2034.
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