Anthropic CEO Amodei Calls for Slowing AI Development

On September 12, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appear to share the view that it may be time to “pace the frontier” of artificial intelligence development. The outlet’s dispatch, framed around this apparent point of agreement, poses the question of what such pacing would actually mean in practice, without supplying a concrete answer.

The piece does not detail specific measures, timelines, or mechanisms by which either executive proposes to slow or pace frontier training. No outlined plan, policy proposal, or joint statement is described in the available material. The report characterizes the two men’s positions only as “seeming” to converge on the general notion that some form of pacing is warranted, leaving open what that would entail for training runs, model releases, or industry practice more broadly.

TechCrunch offers no further elaboration on the companies’ respective strategies or public postures in this dispatch, nor does it characterize the relationship between the two firms beyond noting the two CEOs’ shared language. The report stands as an early signal that language around deliberately moderating AI development pace has entered the public remarks of at least two prominent industry figures, though the practical content of any such pacing remains, per this account, undefined.

Further detail on what pacing the frontier would concretely involve was not available in the cited material as of publication.