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1033 Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/25/2026 09:00 EDT

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequate. "We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments ... if competitors are blazing ahead," chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME.

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