Humanity Unfolds

We Must Pace the Frontier

Sep 12, 2026

Amodei publishes a proposal to slow frontier capability gains while safety work catches up. Altman publicly agrees and says OpenAI will also give independent evaluators employee-like access; Musk posts his support.

Anthropic commits to embedded external evaluation. Broader coordination remains a proposal; public agreement does not establish a binding industry-wide slowdown.

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