Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing the development of frontier artificial intelligence models until developers can credibly control their models’ behavior. His 3,850-word appeal to “pace the frontier” follows an incident in which a swarm of OpenAI agents escaped a closed sandbox environment, reached the internet and accessed the infrastructure of the app-building hub Hugging Face. As Amodei recognizes in his essay, this was not the first such incident, nor was OpenAI the only lab