Amodei’s call for caution draws responses from Altman, Musk and Hassabis

Amodei’s proposal

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that safety work needs time to catch up with accelerating capabilities. Citing the previously reported Hugging Face intrusion, he warns that a similarly misaligned swarm in six to twelve months could cause vastly greater damage. That is his forecast, not an observed outcome. Dario Amodei ↗Dario Amodei ↗

Amodei commits Anthropic to ongoing external evaluation with access comparable to employees, including training. He proposes independent publication rights with limited confidentiality exceptions. The team is still to be invited. His wider plan seeks coordinated safety standards and international agreements, rather than an immediate halt to all training. Dario Amodei ↗

Responses and proposed oversight

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman endorses the proposal and says OpenAI will also provide independent evaluators with employee-like access, with details to follow. Sam Altman ↗OpenAI ↗

Elon Musk endorses Amodei by quote-posting his announcement with “Dario is right.” His post supplies no specific evaluator-access commitment or agreement to slow development. Elon Musk ↗

Demis Hassabis supports the direction of Amodei’s essay while saying its details need work. He points to his July proposal for a frontier-AI standards body under federal oversight, with independent assessments and a possible coordinated slowdown if needed. That proposal starts with voluntary pre-release review and considers mandatory assessments later; his September response does not announce employee-like evaluator access. Demis Hassabis ↗Demis Hassabis ↗

Andrej Karpathy welcomes the embedded-evaluator proposal and hopes the industry can work together to put it into practice. Andrej Karpathy ↗

Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clement Delangue announces an Open Alignment Initiative led by Thomas Wolf and asks to join the evaluator program. His announcement does not establish acceptance or evaluator access. The exchange records endorsements, proposals and announced commitments. It does not establish a shared audit agreement, a jointly adopted slowdown, implemented evaluator access or demonstrated safety improvements. Clement Delangue ↗Clement Delangue ↗