The chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has issued a new appeal for the industry to “slow down,” offering a three-part plan and committing his company to the first of the proposed steps, according to the Guardian.

In a post on social media on Saturday, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” in which he set out how Anthropic would approach the issue. The Guardian reported that Amodei said his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first step of the plan.

Central to that commitment, according to the essay, is providing “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.”

The proposal reflects a broader debate within the technology sector over how quickly powerful AI systems should be developed and released, and what independent oversight, if any, should accompany that progress.

The call did not go unchallenged at the highest levels of government. According to NPR, President Trump downplayed the calls for an AI slowdown, saying there were “negative forces” predicting things that he says won’t happen.

The differing positions underscore the tension between calls from within the industry for greater caution and oversight and a political climate in which some leaders remain skeptical of warnings about the technology’s trajectory.