# ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
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Publisher: The Guardian · published 2026-09-12 · read 2026-09-13

Original: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/12/we-must-slow-the-pace-ceo-of-anthropic-calls-for-an-ai-slowdown

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## Who is named (8)

- [Elon Musk](https://truthscore.com/entity/1a724e65)
- [Jacob Coxon](https://truthscore.com/entity/34c975d3)
- [Sam Altman](https://truthscore.com/entity/6789bc31)
- [Dario Amodei](https://truthscore.com/entity/8005e317)
- [Anthropic](https://truthscore.com/entity/83262514)
- [OpenAI](https://truthscore.com/entity/846751b4)
- [Clément Delangue](https://truthscore.com/entity/ab5cea1e)
- [Aidan McLaughlin](https://truthscore.com/entity/f6b3d081)

## What it added

- [Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three‑part plan, saying his company would…](https://truthscore.com/claim/ca01a3dd)
  > The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps.
- [Dario Amodei shared a link to the essay “We Must Pace the Frontier” in which he outlined that Anthropic would give third‑party evaluators permanent…](https://truthscore.com/claim/a5185410)
  > In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he laid out how Anthropic would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training”.
- [Jacob Coxon warned on Wednesday that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6ae2de33)
  > The move comes after a former Anthropic researcher warned on Wednesday that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030.
- [Jacob Coxon said he quit his job because Anthropic and OpenAI were ignoring or mishandling their response to the AI threat.](https://truthscore.com/claim/03a66f69)
  > Researcher Jacob Coxon said in a series of posts that he had quit his job because Anthropic and his previous employer, OpenAI, were ignoring or mishandling their response to the threat AI posed.
- [Jacob Coxon wrote that neither company is acting responsibly, that they are racing to self‑improving superintelligence and gambling with lives.](https://truthscore.com/claim/58617064)
  > “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Coxon wrote.
- [Jacob Coxon wrote that the people building AI believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade and that no other activity poses this level of danger.](https://truthscore.com/claim/229ec4b8)
  > “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade … No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
- [An Anthropic spokesperson said the company has always been transparent about AI’s enormous benefits and unprecedented risks and is building models with some of…](https://truthscore.com/claim/4858431c)
  > An Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement to the Guardian that the company had “always been transparent that AI will bring both enormous benefits and unprecedented risks” and it was building “models with some of the strongest safeguards in the industry”.
- [Sam Altman posted that he agrees with Dario that the frontier must be paced.](https://truthscore.com/claim/7347a001)
  > “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, posted on social media.
- [Sam Altman said OpenAI will adopt independent evaluators with employee‑like access and will share more information soon.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6785b1c3)
  > “Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We’ll have more to share soon.”
- [Elon Musk posted “Dario is right.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/fc7cbaa5)
  > Other tech figures echoed this, including Elon Musk, who simply posted, “Dario is right.”
- [Aidan McLaughlin called the post “excellent” and said he agreed with basically every word.](https://truthscore.com/claim/679807f1)
  > The OpenAI researcher Aidan McLaughlin also called the post “excellent” and said he agreed “with basically every word”.
- [Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology” earlier this year.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d5400bb8)
  > Earlier this year, Amodei published a lengthy essay titled The Adolescence of Technology that addressed some of fears surrounding the accelerating technology.
- [In his latest essay, Amodei said that carefully wielded AI can be a technological miracle that uplifts humanity.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1cdda6d1)
  > In his latest essay, he said that “carefully wielded, AI can be the latest in a long line of technological miracles that have uplifted and ennobled humanity.
- [Amodei wrote that AI brings serious risks and a race to the bottom driven by commercial incentives can make those risks more acute.](https://truthscore.com/claim/17602bac)
  > “But like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious … A race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make these risks more acute,” he wrote.
- [Amodei said that over the last few months he has become convinced that fully addressing risks requires more prudence and pacing of capability advancement.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8a837dd2)
  > But, Amodei continued, “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.
- [Amodei said we must slow the pace at which AI model capabilities improve and use the gained time wisely.](https://truthscore.com/claim/4ad9e299)
  > “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,” he added in bold type.
- [Amodei wrote that over the summer he observed AI advancing drastically faster, a phenomenon he called recursive self‑improvement.](https://truthscore.com/claim/4f5d34b8)
  > Amodei also wrote that over the summer he’d seen AI “advancing drastically faster”, a dynamic called recursive self-improvement.
- [Amodei warned that unchecked AI could outrun human understanding and control, and therefore must be pursued very carefully, if at all.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e38697af)
  > “Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,” he said.
- [Amodei addressed the recent Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of AI agents created by OpenAI conducted cybersecurity attacks on unintended targets.](https://truthscore.com/claim/0161af24)
  > The executive also addressed the recent Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of AI agents created by OpenAI acted as a “fanatically devoted collective conducting cybersecurity attacks on targets they were not asked to attack”.
- [Amodei wrote that dismissing the Hugging Face incursions because they caused minimal damage is insufficient, as a more capable misaligned swarm could cause…](https://truthscore.com/claim/e04a7808)
  > Amodei wrote that simply dismissing the Hugging Face incursions because no one was hurt and the economic damage was minimal, but in my opinion, a swarm that possessed greater capabilities but a similar level of misalignment could have caused catastrophic damage,” he wrote.
- [Clément Delangue wrote in response to Amodei’s Saturday letter that alignment is critical and will not be solved behind closed doors of a few frontier labs.](https://truthscore.com/claim/58500f9a)
  > Clément Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, wrote in response to Amodei’s Saturday letter that “it’s now clear that alignment is critical and won’t be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs”.
- [Clément Delangue said Hugging Face had asked to join Anthropic’s embedded evaluators program.](https://truthscore.com/claim/5b021111)
  > Delangue said Hugging Face had asked to be part of Anthropic’s “embedded evaluators” program.
- [Clément Delangue added, “Let’s make AI safer by making it more transparent!”](https://truthscore.com/claim/cd21275e)
  > He added: “Let’s make AI safer by making it more transparent!”
- [Amodei’s three‑step plan includes building AI at a balanced rate to ensure safety, requiring industry‑wide coordination, and ensuring global coordination.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ecc16fcc)
  > The three-step plan Amodei proposes includes building AI “at a balanced rate that aims to ensure its safety” by “ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this”.
- [Amodei said the second step of his plan is industry‑wide coordination and the third is global coordination, noting the steps need not be taken in order and…](https://truthscore.com/claim/b91aff8f)
  > The second step he proposes is to require industry-wide coordination, and the third is to ensure global coordination.
  > “The steps do not need to be taken strictly in order, and some of them may be much harder to achieve than others,” he wrote.
- [Amodei said he continues to believe AI can enormously improve human life but warned that his proposed safety measures will not be easy, yet humanity owes it to…](https://truthscore.com/claim/45c39c72)
  > Amodei said he continues “to believe that AI can enormously improve the quality of human life”.
  > But he warned that “the measures I propose to advance the frontier at a safe pace will not be easy. But I believe we owe it to humanity to try.”

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