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AI safety requires action, not promises
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- Marketplace All-in-One
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- Sep 16, 2026
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- 634
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Summary
AI leaders suddenly seem to agree on slowing down the AI race. Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay last weekend calling to "pace the frontier" — slow the development of advanced AI to allow safety measures to catch up. He said Anthropic will give access to independent safety evaluators, to which OpenAI's Sam Altman and XAI's Elon Musk concurred. It's all giving déjà vu to Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Strategy Group, who’s been pushing government leaders around the globe to adopt a similar framework for AI for almost a decade. She laid out her vision in her 2019 book “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.” More on this: “ AI CEOs want to ‘pace’ the industry. That may not mean slowing down. ” from NBC News “ AI's leaders just asked to slow down. I made that case nine years ago. ” from Amy Webb “ We Must Pace the Frontier ” from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei