Amodei calls to pace the frontier amid ~$2T IPO talk
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published in September 2026 the essay “We Must Pace the Frontier,” arguing that recursive self-improvement and incidents such as OpenAI–Hugging Face show companies must slow capability gains so alignment and safeguards can keep up, committing Anthropic unilaterally to embedded third-party evaluators (e.g. METR-style access) while seeking democratic and global coordination. CNBC reported September 14, 2026 that Anthropic is meeting investors after a confidential IPO filing, has picked Nasdaq, and that some coverage frames a possible IPO valuation around $2 trillion—while Amodei pushes industry pacing. This is Amodei’s pacing essay plus CNBC’s IPO framing, not Coxon’s RSI resignation, not Fermat-in-Lean, and not OpenAI’s Alien Mind piece.
We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.