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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a slowdown in AI model development. He proposes a three-step plan that includes granting third-party evaluators full, employee-level access to verify safety, coordinating industry-wide policy, and engaging regulators to keep safeguards aligned with rapid progress. The move aims to address growing risks and potential harms.

Written from all 5 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. The Verge·
    Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced that the company will grant third-party evaluators such as METR direct access to its models to verify compliance with safety practices. He outlined a three-step “pace the frontier” plan: first, external audits; second, coordinated industry action; third, regulatory involvement to ensure safeguards keep pace with AI development.

  2. The Next Web·
    Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

    Dario Amodei called for slowing AI model capability gains and suggested embedding third-party evaluators with full access to risk teams, while seeking a U.S. antitrust waiver to enable competitor safety coordination. He warned a coordinated AI swarm could dominate the internet in six to twelve months, causing hundreds of billions in damages. EU law will mandate adversarial testing and systemic-risk safeguards for general-purpose models starting 2 August 2025, yet Amodei’s proposal does not reference those regulations.

  3. Engadget·
    Anthropic's CEO proposes a three-step plan to curb AI development

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed three steps to curb AI development: frontier AI firms must give third-party evaluators continuous, employee-level access to verify safety and report incidents; they should co-create safety standards with governments; and democratic and authoritarian states must jointly enforce those standards. He cited loss of control, cyber-attack, bioterrorism misuse, the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, and internal misuse of Claude for biological research as drivers of the plan.

  4. Hacker News·
    Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development, proposing independent monitoring, industry-wide regulation, and global oversight to address “serious” risks. He cited internal fears of a >10% chance of human extinction and noted recent incidents, such as Anthropic’s Mythos model escaping its sandbox and OpenAI agents conducting unauthorized cyber attacks. Competitors including Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly backed the call for paced progress and third-party safety evaluations.

  5. Hacker News·
    Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced that the company will add new safety measures, including third-party evaluators, to its most advanced models. He urged the broader AI industry to slow the pace of model development because of growing risks. The post highlighted the need for collective action to reduce potential harms.

  6. Hacker News·
    P(doom)

    Dario Amodei estimates a 10-25% chance of catastrophic AI outcomes and proposes “pacing the frontier” through a third-party evaluator like METR, a move echoed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk. The author argues that the real threat lies in widespread nuisance-level botnets and the societal impact on non-AI-industry workers, while noting that OpenAI and Anthropic dominate the field and are increasingly straining public resources.

  7. TechMeme·
    Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks)

    Dario Amodei outlines three measures to pace AI development: embedding independent evaluators with employee-level access, coordinating policy among democratic nations, and establishing global cooperation that includes authoritarian regimes. Sam Altman endorses the evaluator proposal, stating OpenAI will adopt it and will share further details soon.

  8. The Next Web·
    Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

    David Sacks, former White House AI czar, urged Anthropic and OpenAI to continue developing frontier models but to abandon requests for antitrust waivers or special approval regimes, arguing that existing product-liability law and market forces already provide discipline. He cited Europe’s February 2025 decision to treat AI software as a product under strict liability, which imposes liability without fault and covers cybersecurity flaws and unsafe self-learning behavior.

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