Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman announced that OpenAI will grant independent evaluators employee-like access to its systems, matching Anthropic’s safety commitment, after Dario Amodei urged the industry to pause development and seek a narrow antitrust waiver for coordinated safety discussions. Amodei’s essay proposes that rival labs allow external teams to verify safety work on-site and asks Washington to permit such conversations without legal penalties, a request that has no equivalent mechanism in Europe.