Money Stuff: The Podcast · Friday, September 18, 2026
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled 'Pacing the Frontier,' advocating for a more cautious approach to developing advanced AI models due to potential existential risks. This call for a slowdown has been met with both support and skepticism, with some viewing it as genuine concern and others as marketing.
“The CEO of Anthropic. published an essay over the weekend called Pacing the Frontier, basically being like, we should slow down, take a deep breath, and take our time a little bit on the continuing development of frontier AI models because otherwise they might kill us all.”
“I think there's clearly a marketing benefit to conveying how powerful your AI is by saying, oh, what if it goes a little? I think, is there cynicism in the AI industry? Is Sam Altman being somewhat cynical? Maybe.”
“Do I think that most people at The big AI labs are genuinely worried about AI killing us all? Yes. I don't think it's all marketing.”