A recent call to ‘pace the frontier’ shifts the debate from runaway superintelligence to the practical harms caused by powerful but unreliable systems, and proposes concrete steps labs and enterprises can take now.
Anthropic proposes concrete measures including third-party, employee-level evaluation access to verify safety policies during development and production.
Closing the gap between capability and trustworthiness — not slowing capability per se — is the operational challenge for the coming decade.
Pacing the AI Frontier: the risk of artificial unintelligence | Computer Weekly Home IT risk management Sandwish. stock.adobe.com By Peter van der Putten Published: 18 Sep 2026 "We must pace the frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued in a blog post published last weekend that quickly went viral. He called for "pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up" and Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella swiftly announced their support at least of the general idea.
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The timing does, however, raise legitimate questions. Concerns about AI systems designing increasingly capable successors are also not new. The intellectual roots of the debate stretch back at least sixty years.
The stark reality is this: we don’t know how to maintain control of these systems. But there are actions we can take With Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic , we have reached the AI risk tipping point. Millions of people are finally coming to understand what experts have known for years: AI companies have been ga
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay this past weekend, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” argues that the AI industry should slow the pace of frontier model advancement until safety, oversight, and alignment mechanisms can catch up. His proposal includes embedded third-party evaluators inside AI labs, industrywide safety coor
Usually, these articles are not about the extremes surrounding artificial intelligence. I have been more interested in the practical middle ground—how AI can be used thoughtfully to speed up research, sharpen ideas, reduce wasted effort, and help us get more useful work done. Lately, however, the headlines have taken a
The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily
What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?
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