Elon Musk endorses Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI
Technology executive, writing on X.
“Dario is right.”
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Associated Press reporting on Amodei’s proposal and Altman’s public response.
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Axios reporting on public reactions to Dario Amodei’s proposal to pace frontier-AI development. The relevant X posts were not directly accessible in this research pass.
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Direct X post accessed on September 14. Musk quoted Dario Amodei’s September 12 post announcing an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” and endorsed it with the sentence, “Dario is right.”
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Amodei’s essay proposed pacing frontier-AI development while safety and governance measures catch up.
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The direct X post quotes Amodei’s September 12 announcement of “We Must Pace the Frontier” and says, “Dario is right.” Associated Press and Axios also reported the response.
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Musk directly endorsed Amodei’s proposal in a quote-post. The record does not treat the post as a company position.
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