Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "We Must Pace the Frontier"
[https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier](https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier)
"I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. [I’ve written often](https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace) about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure most major diseases in the next 5–10 years, greatly accelerate economic growth rates, create a world of abundance and empowerment, and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom. I feel the urgency personally. My own father died of a disease that was cured just a few years after his death, and I myself survived an early-stage cancer that would not have been treatable even fifty years ago. Carefully wielded, AI can be the latest in a long line of technological miracles that have uplifted and ennobled humanity.
But like many technologies before it, AI brings risks, and because it is such a powerful technology, these risks are serious. I’ve [written](https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology) a lot about them too. They include the risk of [losing control of AI systems](https://www.anthropic.com/news/improving-alignment-security-efforts), [misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism](https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026), and [serious economic disruption](https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios). A race to the bottom, spurred by commercial incentives, can make these risks more acute."