Dario Amodei
Sources used: First-hand material.
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Position, range and evidence details
Preferred pace: -28; stated catastrophic-risk concern: 81. These are layout units, not percentages or rankings.
Pace range: -48 to -8; concern range: 55 to 96. Ranges show alternative editorial interpretations, not statistical confidence intervals.
Evidence clarity: high. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.
Record status: Published record
What this status means
This is a published Atlas record with no open challenge recorded in this edition. It is not a guarantee that the sources are current or the interpretation is correct.
Status recorded: 2026-09-16. This is separate from the source-reading and actor-review dates.
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2026-09
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
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What this position covers
Frontier capability growth, especially unchecked self-improvement. [1]
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What to keep in mind
Pacing is not stopping. Coordinated steps remain proposals; no independent operational audit is claimed. [1]
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What they say about the pace of AI
Explicitly proposes slower frontier capability growth. [1]
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What they say about catastrophic risk
Expresses serious loss-of-control and catastrophic-misuse concern. [1]
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The wider picture
Calls for slower frontier capability growth while continuing AI development. [1]
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What pacing means here
His September essay proposes outside evaluators and coordination among companies and governments. It argues that extra time could improve safeguards; it does not call for all AI work to stop. [1]
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Sources and what we read
1. We Must Pace the Frontier
Publication dates and source age
Sources counted: 1
Newest dated source: 2026-09
At least one source was published within the 18-month window.
Assessed at this edition's evidence cutoff: 2026-09-16. 18-month boundary: 2025-03-16.
Publication age does not tell us whether a claim is still valid. Reading an old source again does not make its publication date newer. An update date does not establish that the passage we used was updated.
The essay itself specifies the month. The September 12 publication day is corroborated by the September 14 press roundup. A proposal and a commitment are not independent verification of implementation.
Edition and machine-readable evidence
Content version 0.22.0. Evidence cutoff 2026-09-16; this does not mean every source was read on that day.
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