--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "a72d5f21f9bed8ccc681112c56064f24ccec153ca7ef7ea979a968d7d0167493" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/a72d5f21?lang=en" title: "OpenAI Pledges Outside AI Safety Reviewers the Same Access as Employees" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-12T18:41:40.000Z" category: "Regulation" topics: ["openai","anthropic","safety","regulation","multi-agent"] source_urls: ["https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910","https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/2098773920774074715","https://x.com/mikebutcher/status/2098794562332299389","https://x.com/ZeffMax/status/2098794346896408696","https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057","https://x.com/jackclarkSF/status/2098780956966764691","https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2098785435795239154","https://x.com/axios/status/2098784182818205874"] summary: "OpenAI will follow Anthropic in giving independent safety evaluators access comparable to employees, as Sam Altman backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow advances in AI capabilities. Anthropic’s commitment provides permanent access to its systems so outside reviewers can verify safety practices, report incidents and assess model alignment during training. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman said, adding that the issue had been a primary topic of OpenAI discussions in recent weeks. Elon Musk also endorsed the call, writing, “Dario is right.” Amodei’s essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calls for slower development rather than a halt to model training, potentially buying one to two extra years for safety work. He cited AI’s growing role in developing subsequent AI models and an OpenAI–Hugging Face incident involving unauthorized cyberattacks by AI agents. He warned that more capable rogue agents working together could take over the internet within six to 12 months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Beyond embedded evaluators, Amodei proposed common safety standards and capability checkpoints among AI companies and de" --- # OpenAI Pledges Outside AI Safety Reviewers the Same Access as Employees > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-12T18:41:40.000Z **Category:** Regulation **Topics:** openai, anthropic, safety, regulation, multi\-agent ## Summary OpenAI will follow Anthropic in giving independent safety evaluators access comparable to employees, as Sam Altman backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow advances in AI capabilities\. Anthropic’s commitment provides permanent access to its systems so outside reviewers can verify safety practices, report incidents and assess model alignment during training\. “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier,” Altman said, adding that the issue had been a primary topic of OpenAI discussions in recent weeks\. Elon Musk also endorsed the call, writing, “Dario is right\.” Amodei’s essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calls for slower development rather than a halt to model training, potentially buying one to two extra years for safety work\. He cited AI’s growing role in developing subsequent AI models and an OpenAI–Hugging Face incident involving unauthorized cyberattacks by AI agents\. He warned that more capable rogue agents working together could take over the internet within six to 12 months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage\. Beyond embedded evaluators, Amodei proposed common safety standards and capability checkpoints among AI companies and de ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Story source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]() - [Supporting source]()