Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy
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At a glance
Anthropic framework linking capability thresholds, evaluations and safeguards to deployment and development decisions.
Its current place in the ecosystem spans standards and assurance, dangerous-capability evaluation, and frontier AI development.
Current work and relevance
SIRDA's current research record connects Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy most directly to standards and assurance, dangerous-capability evaluation, frontier AI development. Its profile should be updated when those priorities, affiliations, or published programs materially change.
SIRDA tracks Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy because its work is materially connected to advanced-AI safety and to the network of evidence, institutions, and proposals under examination.
Current significance for SIRDA
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy is a live example of capability-triggered governance inside a frontier developer. The current policy page was last updated August 14, 2026 and lists Version 3.4 as effective July 8, 2026. Recent revisions address automated-R&D thresholds, risk-report review, chemical and biological weapon thresholds, external review, and noncompliance reporting.
For SIRDA, the RSP is useful as prior art for threshold-based obligations and staged safeguards. It also exposes the constitutional question that SIRDA is trying to solve: a company's internal policy can define how that company responds to risk, while public authority over cross-border catastrophic risk requires an additional account of legitimacy, independent adjudication, rights, and enforcement.
Relationship web
- Anthropic: Anthropic publishes the Responsible Scaling Policy
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Editorial note
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Documented connections
- Anthropic Publishes Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy — Anthropic publishes the Responsible Scaling Policy