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title: "Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge"
author: TIME staff
source: TIME
date: 2026-03-06
url: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
processed_by: theseus
processed_date: 2026-03-07
type: news article
status: complete
enrichments:
  - target: "voluntary safety pledges cannot survive competitive pressure because unilateral commitments are structurally punished when competitors advance without equivalent constraints"
    contribution: "Conditional RSP structure, Kaplan quotes, $30B/$380B financials, METR frog-boiling warning"
---

# Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

TIME exclusive on Anthropic overhauling its Responsible Scaling Policy. Original RSP: never train without advance safety guarantees. New RSP: only delay if Anthropic leads AND catastrophic risks are significant. Kaplan: "We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models." $30B raise, ~$380B valuation, 10x annual revenue growth. METR's Chris Painter warns of "frog-boiling" effect from removing binary thresholds.