On September 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted an essay calling for an intentional global slowdown of AI development and embedded independent safety auditors. The discussion has moved to whether the labs' safety commitments bind anyone: Anthropic's first embedded evaluators are a six-person METR team with employee-like access, but the alarms are not binding, and OpenAI's post-hack auditors got six days and seven pre-approved questions. The administration refused a liability shield, Kanter says only an agreed slowdown implicates antitrust law, and a 1,300-signature pacing letter keeps the terms of any slowdown contested.