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Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
2026/02/24 20:00
  • URL: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
  • Posted: Feb 24, 2026 3:00 PM EST (date: 2026/02/24)
  • Topics: Anthropic AI/safety Jared Kaplan
  • Summary: «Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.» ... chief science officer Jared Kaplan: «“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.”» ... «Kaplan [...] denied the company’s decision to change course was a capitulation to market incentives as the race for superintelligence accelerates. He framed it instead as a pragmatic response to emerging political and scientific realities.» It's a "pragmatic response" to "political ... realities", but definitely not "capitulation"...