AI Companies’ New Plan to Keep Themselves From Destroying Everything

Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET on September 28, 2026 Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk don’t agree on much. Each started their AI company—Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, respectively—out of spite at competitors’ greed and recklessness; each is certain that he alone can be entrusted to build superintelligence safely. But in the midst of the AI panic that has seized the country over the past two weeks, the three CEOs found one point of consensus: the introduction of “embedded evaluators,” or outside experts, to sit inside AI companies and monitor their safety practices. Both Amodei and Altman made ex