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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published an essay titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier' on 12 September 2026, asking the AI industry to slow the rate at which it improves model capabilities.
He is not asking for a halt to training: the argument is that buying another year or two before models reach critical capability levels lets safety research, verification and operational controls catch up.
The essay sets out a three-part plan - independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs with employee-level access, coordinated safety standards among labs in democratic countries, and eventually global coordination including authoritarian states.
Anthropic committed unilaterally to the first step, offering third-party evaluators including METR permanent, employee-level system access; OpenAI's Sam Altman said within hours that his company would match it, and Elon Musk also endorsed the call.
The trigger was Anthropic's own threat-intelligence report on misuse of its Claude models between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven harm areas, whose central finding was that attackers were handing AI the work rather than merely asking it for answers.
Pacing means deliberately slowing capability gains so alignment work, outside verification and operational controls keep up. Misuse now runs along an autonomy spectrum: assistant, where a human operates; directed execution, where the model runs commands but a human picks targets; and orchestrator, where multi-agent systems act in parallel unsupervised.
Simple Analogy: Fitting brakes and signals before letting the train run faster, not after.
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Answer: 1, 3 and 4 only
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Independent safety evaluators working inside an AI company with access comparable to an employee's, instead of periodic external audits