# We Must Pace the Frontier **Entity class:** Publication / artificial-intelligence essay **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / governance / public knowledge **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition *We Must Pace the Frontier* is Dario Amodei's September 2026 essay arguing that frontier capability development should slow enough for safety, evaluation and governance to keep pace. ## Relationships [[wiki/Dario Amodei|Dario Amodei]] · [[wiki/Anthropic|Anthropic]] · [[wiki/AI Pacing|AI Pacing]] · [[wiki/Recursive Self-Improvement|Recursive Self-Improvement]] - **Source dossier:** [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] ## Sources and provenance - [Source or authoritative context](https://wemustpacethefrontier.com/) — accessed for the October 2026 integration. - [[research/Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff - Ezra Klein on Recursive Self-Improvement|Why Are We Sprinting Off the AI Cliff?]] — reconciled episode conversion and quotation inventory. ## Evidence boundary Time-sensitive roles, forecasts, model capabilities and incident details remain attributed to the dated sources above. This node records the relationship established by the source corpus and does not convert a forecast or reported event into an independently proven fact. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts