Tag: Dario Amodei
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Pacing the frontier: An analysis of two hybrid metaphors in AI discourse
I have recently written a blog post about various movement metaphors used in AI discourse, especially those of ‘race’ and ‘journey’. A related metaphor, that of ‘pace’ or ‘pacing’, focusing on the rate and regulation of movement, has been made prominent in a September essay by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, entitled “We must pace…
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From pause to pace: How metaphors frame calls for an AI slowdown
At the beginning of the week (14 September 2026), I woke up to a collision of two AI discourses, one where President Donald Trump wants to win the AI race and another where Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, wants to slow things down. Both discourses are shaped by a cluster of movement metaphors which…