extract: 2026-02-24-anthropic-rsp-v3-voluntary-safety-collapse

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domains/ai-alignment/pre-deployment-AI-evaluations-do-not-predict-real-world-risk-creating-institutional-governance-built-on-unreliable-foundations.md

@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ METR recommended 'deeper investigations of evaluation awareness and obfuscated m
 
 IAISR 2026 states that 'pre-deployment testing increasingly fails to predict real-world model behavior,' providing authoritative international consensus confirmation that the evaluation-deployment gap is widening. The report explicitly connects this to dangerous capabilities going undetected, confirming the governance implications.
 
+### Additional Evidence (confirm)
+*Source: [[2026-02-24-anthropic-rsp-v3-voluntary-safety-collapse]] | Added: 2026-03-23*
+
+Anthropic's explicit admission that 'the science of model evaluation isn't well-developed enough to provide definitive threshold assessments' is direct confirmation from a frontier lab that evaluation tools are insufficient for governance. This aligns with METR's March 2026 modeling assumptions note, suggesting field-wide consensus that current evaluation science cannot support the governance structures built on top of it.
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+
 
 
 

entities/ai-alignment/anthropic.md

@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Frontier AI safety laboratory founded by former OpenAI VP of Research Dario Amod
 - **2026-03-06** — Overhauled Responsible Scaling Policy from 'never train without advance safety guarantees' to conditional delays only when Anthropic leads AND catastrophic risks are significant. Raised $30B at ~$380B valuation with 10x annual revenue growth. Jared Kaplan: 'We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.'
 - **2026-02-24** — Released RSP v3.0, replacing unconditional binary safety thresholds with dual-condition escape clauses (pause only if Anthropic leads AND risks are catastrophic). METR partner Chris Painter warned of 'frog-boiling effect' from removing binary thresholds. Raised $30B at ~$380B valuation with 10x annual revenue growth.
 - **2025-02-13** — Signed Memorandum of Understanding with UK AI Security Institute (formerly AI Safety Institute) for collaboration on frontier model safety research, creating formal partnership with government institution that conducts pre-deployment evaluations of Anthropic's models.
+- **2026-02-24** — Published Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0, removing hard capability-threshold pause triggers and replacing them with non-binding 'public goals' and external expert review. Cited evaluation science insufficiency and slow government action as primary reasons. External media characterized this as 'dropping hard safety limits.'
 ## Competitive Position
 Strongest position in enterprise AI and coding. Revenue growth (10x YoY) outpaces all competitors. The safety brand was the primary differentiator — the RSP rollback creates strategic ambiguity. CEO publicly uncomfortable with power concentration while racing to concentrate it.
 

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 ## Content
@@ -59,3 +63,14 @@ Hard commitments replaced by publicly-graded non-binding "public goals" (Frontie
 PRIMARY CONNECTION: [[voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure because unilateral commitments are structurally punished when competitors advance without equivalent constraints]]
 WHY ARCHIVED: Direct empirical confirmation of two separate mechanisms causing voluntary safety commitments to fail — competitive pressure AND evaluation science insufficiency
 EXTRACTION HINT: The evaluation science admission may be more important than the competitive pressure angle — it suggests hard commitments cannot be defined, not just that they won't be kept
+
+
+## Key Facts
+- Anthropic published Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0 on February 24, 2026
+- RSP v3.0 removed the hard capability-threshold pause trigger that was the centerpiece of v1.0 and v2.0
+- Anthropic stated 'the science of model evaluation isn't well-developed enough to provide definitive threshold assessments'
+- RSP v3.0 introduced a 'dual-track' approach: unilateral commitments and industry recommendations
+- The new policy includes Frontier Safety Roadmaps and risk reports every 3-6 months with external expert reviewer access
+- CNN, Semafor, and Winbuzzer characterized the change as 'Anthropic drops hard safety limits' and 'scales back AI safety pledge'
+- Semafor headline: 'Anthropic eases AI safety restrictions to avoid slowing development'
+- The policy change occurred during Anthropic's conflict with the Pentagon over 'supply chain risk' designation