Anthropic Revamps AI Safety Policy Amid Industry Pressure

What Happened Anthropic unveiled Version 3.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), marking the most significant revision to the company’s safety framework since its inception. The update introduces a crucial distinction between what Anthropic commits to do internally versus what it believes the entire AI industry should adopt. Under the previous RSP, Anthropic committed to implementing safety mitigations that would reduce their models’ absolute risk levels to acceptable standards, regardless of competitors’ actions.