Elon Musk Supports Dario Amodei’s Proposal to Pace Frontier AI Development
On 12 September 2026, one hour after Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Elon Musk quote-posted it with three words: “Dario is right.” We look at why the endorsement matters coming from a rival who called Anthropic “misanthropic and evil” in February, the $1.25 billion-a-month compute deal that preceded his July reversal, the “Seems like a setup” post 61 hours earlier, how Musk’s own July proposal for rival labs to review each other’s models differs from Amodei’s embedded evaluators, and what SpaceXAI would need to do to match Anthropic’s commitment.
