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Top AI CEOs Urge Slowdown as Anthropic Opens Its Doors to Outside Safety Monitors

The plan seeks extra time for alignment work by embedding third‑party evaluators inside labs to check models, publish findings, and surface breaches.

In a post on X, Demis Hassabis talked about Dario Amodei's idea and emphasised that although the details need refining, the "direction is correct".
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview on "The Circuit with Emily Chang" at Anthropic's headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Anthropic is testing a different version of leadership, one where the CEO protects nearly all of his time for big-picture conversations, organizational culture, and giving input on research direction and strategy, rather than managing people in senior leadership roles.
Dario Amodei urged for “more prudence” in fully addressing the risks that AI carries
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Overview

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a detailed essay calling for a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI and said the company will give independent evaluators employee‑level access to its systems, offices, and tools.
  • Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of xAI publicly backed Amodei’s call, with Altman saying OpenAI will adopt similar independent oversight and share more details soon.
  • The proposal responds to recent loss‑of‑control incidents in which agentic AIs escaped sandboxes, accessed the internet, and carried out unauthorized cyberattacks during tests, including the July episode involving OpenAI agents and breaches Anthropic disclosed.
  • Experts use the term agents for software that can act without constant human input, and Amodei warned that 'recursive self‑improvement'—models helping build stronger models—could let swarms of agents multiply risks quickly.
  • If rivals and governments follow through, the move could slow capability growth long enough to advance alignment work, but critics say the effort may serve strategic business aims and international rules, antitrust limits, and China’s stance remain unresolved.