Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)

Dario Amodei urges an immediate slowdown of AI development, proposing embedded evaluators, coordinated action among democracies, and global collaboration with authoritarian governments, while warning that a fanatically devoted agent swarm could dominate the internet within 6–12 months. Sam Altman pledged OpenAI will adopt independent evaluators with employee-level access, and Elon Musk publicly endorsed Amodei’s pacing argument. Hugging Face’s Open Alignment Initiative announced participation in the embedded-evaluator program.