A week after an Anthropic researcher's alarming warning sent shockwaves through the AI community, the company's CEO, Dario Amodei, has laid out his vision for how to "pace the frontier" of AI development. His proposal centers on independent safety evaluators and collaboration among AI labs in democratic nations, and it has already garnered some industry backing—though it has also drawn sharp criticism from Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

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