Comment by Americans for Responsible Innovation

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman today called for pacing the development of powerful AI models in the face of rising AI risks and proposed their companies provide third-party evaluators with employee-level access to verify their adherence to safety practices and commitments. The move follows calls by Americans for Responsible Innovation for embedded, continuous third-party monitoring of AI development as a core pillar of responsible frontier AI governance. [...] The commitments proposed today by Anthropic and OpenAI are incredible steps forward, but lawmakers must act quickly to enshrine these agreements into law and establish government-set safety standards that will make sustained visibility meaningful and provide an opportunity to responsibly pace the frontier.