What Amodei’s call for an AI pause gets wrong

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