Anthropic CEO Amodei Calls for Slowing Frontier AI, Warns Risks Are Real

Amodei's public self-criticism is notable less for the safety framing than for the governance architecture it implies: third-party evaluators embedded inside labs, joint standards, and a government seat at the table. That is a bid to shape the rules before they are imposed, and the backing from Musk and Altman suggests the frontier labs are converging on a common posture rather than competing on deregulation. The open question is whether voluntary evaluator access and joint standards hold once competitive pressure on the frontier intensifies.