Amodei, Altman call for slowing AI model development

Anthropic head Dario Amodei | Bloomberg

Bloomberg

Sep 13, 2026

Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology.

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday saying his company would implement new safety steps such as third-party evaluators while calling on the industry to support a broader downshift.

OpenAI chief Sam Altman quickly pledged to adopt Amodei’s suggestion of “independent evaluators with employee-like access,” while Elon Musk, who runs xAI Corp., wrote, “Dario is right.”

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