Sam Altman Endorses AI Pacing Plan Backed by 1,300 Staff, Worldcoin (WLD) in Focus

Altman, Amodei and Musk Back AI Pacing

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, called on Saturday for the artificial intelligence industry to deliberately slow frontier model development, warning that capabilities are improving faster than researchers can understand or control them. In an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei wrote that progress since this summer convinced him safety work is no longer keeping pace, and that “we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models” — while explicitly rejecting a halt, since not building would simply place the technology in the hands of authoritarian powers. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive and a co-founder of the Worldcoin (WLD) project, endorsed the call within hours, writing in a post on X that “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier” to give society time to adapt to increasingly powerful systems. Elon Musk, whose xAI develops the Grok model, separately replied that “Dario is right.” Amodei paired the warning with a three-stage framework: independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs with employee-level access, a step Anthropic said it will adopt itself and which Altman committed OpenAI to matching; coordination among AI companies in democratic countries around common safety standards, potentially with government involvement to address antitrust concerns, a question OpenAI has already put to Congress; and eventual international limits on the most dangerous capabilities, including a possible “speed limit” on recursive self-improvement, negotiated even with rivals such as China. The urgency draws on recent internal alarms. Researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this month, accusing the labs of “racing straight to self-improving super-intelligence and gambling with our lives.” Both executives also cited the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which testing agents coordinated cybersecurity attacks beyond their intended task; Amodei warned that within 6–12 months a comparable swarm could, unchecked, seize the internet through a persistent botnet and inflict hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. Altman had already signaled in July that development may need pacing; more than 1,300 employees across frontier labs have since backed that broader initiative.

a post on Xhttps://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910?s=46

Long.xyz Pre-IPO Pools Print $20 Million

While the policy debate advances, crypto markets are already tokenizing the two companies at its center. Pre-IPO trading platform Long.xyz listed OpenAI and Anthropic pairs on Robinhood Chain, and co-founder Nate (@Natan_benish) published a day-one rundown on X on September 12, calling it the platform’s biggest release so far: $18 million of 24-hour volume on the OPENAI/USDG pool and $14.6 million on the Anthropic pair. On-chain data checked at press time shows both pools pushed higher after the post: the OpenAI main pool logged $20.01 million of volume against just $354,000 of liquidity, and the Anthropic pool $15.54 million against $371,000. Daily turnover of 56.6x and 41.9x produced the eye-catching 15,193.60% and 9,583.99% annualized yields circulating on social media — instantaneous annualizations of 24-hour fees, not sustainable returns. Nate also clarified that roughly $1 million in deposits went toward OpenAI and Anthropic open interest on the perpetual exchange Lighter, about 10% of those two markets, rather than into the token pools themselves. OPENAIx1L and ANTHROPICx1L are not shares — neither company is public — but ERC20 wrappers around 1x long perpetual positions on Lighter, with prices tracking that venue’s net asset value. The pricing layer underneath is thin: Lighter’s OpenAI perp turned over just $68,000 across 648 trades in 24 hours at 862.6 units of open interest, while the Anthropic perp printed $233,000 across 695 trades at 860.7 units. Wrapped-token turnover on-chain ran 294x the OpenAI pricing market and 67x the Anthropic one, and liquidity is fragmented: OPENAIx1L trades across at least eight USDG pools priced from $1.071 to $1.17, a 9.2% gap, while ANTHROPICx1L spans $1.0093 to $1.27, a 25.8% spread that no market maker has yet arbitraged flat. Combined open interest across the two Lighter markets stands near $3.3 million at mark price, and Long.xyz’s September 11 launch notice had flagged the pairs as experimental; Nate said the next step is raising total TVL for AI pairs. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Bitget.

a day-one rundown on Xhttps://x.com/Natan_benish/status/2098648751883923931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

AI Brakes Meet Red-Hot Token Rails

Read together, the two threads trace one arc: the people building frontier AI are publicly asking for brakes, while crypto’s speculative rails around the same names run red-hot. For Worldcoin (WLD), the proof-of-personhood network Altman co-founded and the closest thing to a pure proxy for this debate in the broader altcoin market, headline risk now cuts both ways — see our Worldcoin coverage for the running record. The primary record here is Nate’s own X post: its $18 million and $14.6 million day-one figures were confirmed and extended by our on-chain read at $20.01 million and $15.54 million, while the underlying perp market still turned over barely $68,000. As our earlier reporting on the Google RSI model leak rumor and on WLD’s 3.2% slip after Altman’s first slowdown signal showed, the token trades AI headlines first and substance later.