Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

A digital brain on a leash.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its “adherence to safety practices and commitments.” In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to “pace the frontier” – jargon that simply means to slow the pace of training and development to give companies time to build safeguards and regulators to evaluate models.

Amodei says that giving external evaluators wide-ranging access is just the first step, and one it is taking now unilaterally. Step two would involve the industry coming together as a whole, likely with gove …

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