Who Paces the AI Frontier?

America’s real AI threat isn’t defeat by China — It's becoming it

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently argued that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down for safety reasons, while also urging tighter restrictions on U.S. chips and technology to prevent China from pulling ahead. Meanwhile, OpenAI is explicitly asking the U.S. federal government to impose mandatory national safety rules on frontier AI, and Anthropic’s policy […]

Who Paces the AI Frontier?

Dario Amodei wants to give society time to deliberate about artificial intelligence. I am not qualified to judge the merits of the head of Anthropic’s proposal, made in his...

View: Pacing the frontier is more about business models than AI models

Reed’s viewDario Amodei and other frontier AI lab leaders may care deeply about AI safety, but calls to “pace the frontier” also serve their financial interests.As Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public and try to convince investors they can one day be massively profitable, spending billions on a race to grow the biggest and most capable models may not be the best sales pitch.Even if large language models progress very little, they already do…

Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO weigh in on Anthropic AI proposal

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, published an essay on Sept. 12 arguing that frontier AI labs should deliberately slow the pace at which they improve model capabilities by one to two years, so that safety and alignment work can catch up. The roughly 3,800-word piece proposed a three-step plan:…