Sam Altman endorses pacing frontier AI and independent evaluators
OpenAI CEO, responding publicly to Amodei’s proposal.
“I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.”
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Reporting
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up (opens in a new tab)Coverage of Sam Altman’s public response to Amodei’s proposal
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Associated Press reporting on Amodei’s proposal and Altman’s public response.
Before the quotation
Amodei’s proposal called for frontier-AI development to be paced and for independent evaluators to receive durable access to assess safety practices.
After the quotation
The public response was reported alongside reactions to Amodei’s broader proposal; the original social post was not directly accessible in this research pass.
How this statement is classified
Altman’s attributed response endorses a guardrail and a planned evaluator-access mechanism. It is a statement of intent and does not establish that OpenAI has implemented the mechanism.
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