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Anthropic chief urges slowdown in AI development to safer pace

DevelopingAI & TechGovernanceFirst tracked 2026-09-13Last changed 2026-10-15

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Anthropic has acted on its independent evaluator commitment by granting METR employee-level access and allowing publication of findings; the proposal from Amodei's slowdown call is now in an implementation phase.

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  1. #01
    Initial2026-09-13 11:09 · publication time

    Anthropic chief urges slowdown in AI development to safer pace

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in AI development to a safer pace, citing recursive self-improvement risks and a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face agent incident, with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk expressing agreement.

    Source evidence: Cointelegraph

  2. #02
    Response2026-10-15 19:14 · publication time

    Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

    Anthropic has granted METR researchers employee-level access to its internal systems for independent risk and incident evaluations, and agreed it cannot block METR from publishing its findings.

    State after update: Anthropic has acted on its independent evaluator commitment by granting METR employee-level access and allowing publication of findings; the proposal from Amodei's slowdown call is now in an implementation phase.

    Source evidence: TechCrunch AI

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