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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

10:09 AM PDT · September 18, 2026
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A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. 

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