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Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

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Source: BBC TechnologySeptember 12, 2026

Summary

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has called for AI development to slow down and be closely monitored because the risks are "serious." He proposed a three-point plan including independent monitoring of AI models as they develop, industry-wide regulation, and global regulation, and committed Anthropic to building AI at a "balanced rate" that ensures safety while still advancing the technology. Other AI leaders like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk have expressed support for slowing down AI development and using independent evaluators (third-party monitors who check if AI models are safe before release) to assess safety.

Solution / Mitigation

Amodei's proposed mitigations mentioned in the source are: (1) independent monitoring and evaluation of AI models as they are developed, (2) industry-wide regulation, (3) global regulation, (4) building "AI at a balanced rate that aims to ensure its safety while still achieving its benefits," which includes "ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this," and (5) AI companies "voluntarily work together to set standards" in parallel with regulation. Amodei committed Anthropic to this approach "unilaterally" and called on governments "to require other frontier companies to match."