Frontier pacing: the evaluator moves inside

In September 2026, Dario Amodei committed Anthropic to ongoing outside reviewers with access comparable to internal risk staff. He proposed shared industry standards and government-supported coordination next. The planned reviewers could publish findings, with specified redactions; METR appears as an example, not an appointment. The contract, selected team and practical handling of access disputes remain the decisive missing records. Read Amodei’s essay.

Added 13 September2026 to close a gap between the discussion and the public corpus. The primary essay gives a month, not a publication day. The graph records an announced commitment and preserves that date precision.

The White House pulls in a different direction

AP reports that Trump resisted AI slowdown calls in Ireland on September 13, citing competition with China while allowing for guardrails. AP report.

This puts national competition in tension with the labs' proposed collective pacing. The available exchange establishes a public stance; it does not establish a formal decision on the particular Amodei plan. The original complete question and answer remain a follow-up target.