‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

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In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:46:01 UTC.

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  1. Anthropic CEO calls to slow the race toward AI ‘superintelligence,’ and grants outside evaluators permanent access

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