AnalysisPolicySeptember 21, 2026

Stratechery: "Pacing the Frontier" also serves frontier lab business interests

Ben Thompson argues Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" safety framing conveniently addresses distinct problems faced by frontier labs. He links it to his earlier "Anthropic's Safety Superpower" analysis, which claimed the company's safety rhetoric licensed aggressive disintermediation of software and collection of customer data.

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