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Jared Kaplan

co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic

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Our RSP focuses on managing catastrophic risks—those where an AI model has the potential to directly cause large-scale devastation. Such risks can come from deliberate misuse (e.g., use by terrorists or state actors to create bioweapons) or from models that cause destruction by acting autonomously in ways contrary to the intent of their designers.

Jared Kaplan

co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic

In a written statement for a December 2023 Senate AI Insight Forum, Jared Kaplan wrote that Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy focuses on catastrophic risks -- those where an AI model has the potential to directly cause large-scale devastation -- and that such risks can come from deliberate misuse, such as terrorists or state actors using a model to create bioweapons, or from models that cause destruction by acting autonomously in ways contrary to the intent of their designers.

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic PBCDecember 6, 2023AI Insight Forum: Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios

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Policy In September, Anthropic published our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) 6 , a series of technical and organizational protocols that we are adopting to help us manage the risks of developing increasingly capable AI systems. Our RSP focuses on managing catastrophic risks—those where an AI model has the potential to directly cause large-scale devastation. Such risks can come from deliberate misuse (e.g., use by terrorists or state actors to create bioweapons) or from models that cause destruction by acting autonomously in ways contrary to the intent of their designers. Our RSP defines a framework called AI Safety Levels (ASL) for addressing catastrophic risks, modeled loosely after the U.S. government’s biosafety level (BSL) standards for handling of dangerous biological materials.

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REQUIRED QUALIFIER FROM THE SAME DOCUMENT: Kaplan states twice that 'we do not believe that the systems available today pose an imminent concern' (introduction and conclusion), framing the catastrophic risks as future and conditional -- 'it is prudent to do foundational work now to help reduce risks from advanced AI if and when much more powerful systems are developed'.

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On the one hand, the ASL system implicitly requires us to temporarily pause training of more powerful models if our AI scaling outstrips our ability to comply with the necessary safety procedures.

Jared Kaplan

co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic

In a written statement for a December 2023 Senate AI Insight Forum, Jared Kaplan wrote that Anthropic's AI Safety Level system implicitly requires the company to temporarily pause training of more powerful models if its AI scaling outstrips its ability to comply with the necessary safety procedures.

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic PBCDecember 6, 2023AI Insight Forum: Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios

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Our intention is for the ASL system to strike a balance between effectively targeting catastrophic risk and incentivising beneficial applications and safety progress. On the one hand, the ASL system implicitly requires us to temporarily pause training of more powerful models if our AI scaling outstrips our ability to comply with the necessary safety procedures. But it does so in a way that directly incentivizes us to solve the necessary safety issues as a way to unlock further scaling, and allows us to use the most powerful models from the previous ASL level as a tool for developing

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SCOPE: this describes Anthropic's own 2023 internal ASL policy, not a proposed statutory or industry-wide pause. The same paragraph offers industry adoption only as a hope -- 'If adopted as a standard across frontier labs, we hope this might create a “race to the top” dynamic' -- and the surrounding text calls RSPs 'a valuable prototype and test case for potential downstream regulation'.
The commitment is conditional and self-assessed: the trigger is Anthropic's own judgment that its scaling has outstripped its compliance with its own safety procedures.

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But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem.

Jared Kaplan

co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic

In a February 2026 TIME interview about Anthropic's rewritten Responsible Scaling Policy, Jared Kaplan said Anthropic does not think it makes sense to stop engaging with AI research and AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and Anthropic is not contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem.

Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, AnthropicPublished February 24, 2026 · date of remarks not establishedExclusive interview with Billy Perrigo

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“If all of our competitors are transparently doing the right thing when it comes to catastrophic risk, we are committed to doing as well or better,” he said. “But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem.”

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It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.

Signed statement: “Pacing the Frontier” (frontier-lab employees, Guidelight + Encode AI)

Jared Kaplan

co-founder and chief science officer of Anthropic

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Jared Kaplan signed “Pacing the Frontier,” which asked the U.S. government to support an international effort to build tools for slowing automated AI development when needed.

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, AnthropicDate not establishedPacing the Frontier

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the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.” - 1,378 employees of frontier AI companies John Schulman Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Jakub Pachocki Chief Scientist, OpenAI Jared Kaplan Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic Shengjia Zhao Chief Scientist, Meta AI Shane Legg Co-Founder & Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind Ilya Sutskever CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.

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Jared Kaplan appears once in the statement's roster; the roster's wording is “Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic.”

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