Amodei wants to slow the AI frontier. Africa is still trying to reach it

In his September 2026 essay , “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that AI capabilities are advancing faster than society’s ability to understand, evaluate and control increasingly powerful systems. His proposal is not to halt AI development, but to slow the pace of capability gains long enough for safety research and governance to catch up. Amodei points to the potential for recursive self-improvement and increasingly autonomous AI agents, warning that unchecked progre