I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips, and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations.

In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could dramatically raise the quality of human life" but that it "brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious." He advocated "pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up."

The Anthropic CEO recommends embedding third-party evaluators at each frontier AI company to verify adherence to safety practices, coordination among companies within democratic countries to establish common safety standards, and for the U.S. and other democracies "to coordinate with authoritarian governments, to the extent possible, while taking seriously the challenges of verifying compliance."

Absent such action, Amodei warned that an AI swarm could become capable of "taking over the internet" within a year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk jumped on the........

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