We Must Pace the Frontier

Amodei argues that increasingly capable AI could pose catastrophic risks unless safety measures advance alongside it. He proposes giving independent evaluators sustained access to frontier labs, establishing shared safety standards and verifiable pacing agreements among democratic countries, and ultimately pursuing wider international coordination. Development would pass capability-based checkpoints tied to evidence that safeguards are adequate. His central claim is that alignment research, testing and operational preparedness need time to catch up, while acknowledging the commercial and geopolitical difficulties of coordinating a slowdown.