Proposals to 'Pace' Frontier AI Model Development Have Lawmakers, Industry Divided

AI could make our lives better. So why are we trying to stop it?

Anthropic's CEO wants federal regulation that would slow down AI (and his competitors' innovations). Has that ever worked?

The AI Industry Says It Wants To Slow Down. Can It?

On today’s Big Take podcast, Sarah Holder and Bloomberg tech editor Sarah Frier break down the many reasons and motivations behind AI leaders’ calls to slow the development of so-called frontier models. What are they asking of the US government, and how much could they do to “pace the frontier” on their own? Listen wherever you get your podcasts. (Source: Bloomberg)

The AI Frontier Can Pace Itself

Proposals to 'pace' frontier AI model development have lawmakers, industry divided

Dario Amodei, chief executive of artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, has called for the industry to collectively slow the pace of frontier AI development, bringing a debate over the risks of increasingly capable models into sharper public focus as lawmakers, industry leaders and the Trump administration weigh how -- or whether -- the government should respond. “I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models …

Who Will Control the Pace of AI Development?

As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for the artificial intelligence industry to slow the pace of development, a central question is emerging: Who has the authority — or responsibility — to put the brakes on the race toward increasingly capable AI?

Anthropic warns recursive AI improvement could outrun human control

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called for the pace of frontier artificial intelligence development to be slowed, warning that rapid advances in AI capabilities could soon outstrip efforts to understand, evaluate and control increasingly powerful systems. Amodei, in an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier, argued that the industry should not halt AI […]