Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
THE SO WHAT
A three-step "pace the frontier" plan with METR and other third-party evaluators in the loop turns safety from a marketing claim into something closer to an audited process. If you're integrating Anthropic or peers, align your internal risk reviews with these external eval checkpoints rather than treating them as after-the-fact reports.
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