AI Safety and Pacing the Frontier
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on his personal website: But over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up. We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.
- ▪Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on his personal website: But over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the ra
- ▪We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.
- ▪Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 32 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Sam Altman: Frontier AI labs need shared safety rules and responsible pacing — X (formerly Twitter)
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/09/15/on-ai-safety-and-pacing.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:45:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T12:01:52.378Z |
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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, on his personal website: But over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence — not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up. We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain. Two things have convinced me. My first concern is that, since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI.
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