Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced a three-part plan to “pace the frontier” of AI, beginning with unilaterally embedding third-party evaluators such as METR inside the company to verify safety commitments and report incidents. He urged democratic AI firms to adopt shared safety standards and rate limits, proposing U.S. government mediation to address antitrust concerns, and suggested coordinated restrictions on chip sales and model distillation to curb China’s progress while seeking limited cooperation with authoritarian regimes.