The AI Daily Brief · Monday, September 14, 2026
Dario Amodei's proposal to pace AI development includes a three-step plan. The first step, implementable immediately, involves embedding third-party evaluators within frontier AI companies. The second step calls for democratic coordination among nations to establish common safety standards and limits on AI progress, while the third and most ambitious step aims for global coordination with both democratic and authoritarian governments.
“The first step, the one which can happen right away, is to embed third-party evaluators within every frontier AI company to verify adherence to safety practices, report incidents, and assess the alignment training pipelines and processes rather than just the final models.”
“Second, he called democratic coordination with frontier AI companies across democratic nations, establishing what he called common safety standards, as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progress.”
“the third, most ambitious, most difficult to secure step in the pacing plan is what he calls global coordination.”