Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just dropped a must-read essay that's making waves across AI circles.

TL;DR: He's calling for AI labs to intentionally slow down frontier model development because safety measures can't keep pace with capability gains.

His proposal: Use that breathing room for external audits, safety research, and international governance frameworks.

This matters for crypto/Web3 because AI x Crypto is heating up fast—agents, onchain inference, decentralized compute. If top AI labs pump the brakes, it could shift where innovation happens next. Decentralized AI infrastructure might catch a bid.

Watch this space. Regulatory capture vs permissionless innovation round 2.