Versions Anthropic · Responsible Scaling Policy: 9 recorded versions, oldest first, published by Anthropic. A version is shown as replacing another only where a record says so. Date order alone never implies it.
2023-09-19 · effective v1.0 (this version) 2024-10-15 · effective v2.0 2025-03-31 · effective v2.1 2025-05-14 · effective v2.2 2026-02-24 · effective v3.0 2026-04-02 · effective v3.1 2026-04-29 · effective v3.2 2026-05-26 · effective v3.3 2026-07-08 · effective v3.4 Read the full document history of these frameworks → This version Replaced by Responsible Scaling Policy v2.0 replaces v1.0 in the publisher’s documented framework version sequence. 2024-10-15 · effective · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Inferred document comparison Change recorded in v2.0 v2.0's threshold concerns CBRN weapons specifically, defined as significant help to individuals or groups with basic technical backgrounds in creating/obtaining and deploying them; v1.0's ASL-3 misuse capability was defined as model access substantially increasing the risk of deliberately-caused catastrophic harm generally, measured against a search-engine and textbook baseline. 2024-10-15 · effective · Inferred · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Inferred document comparison Change recorded in v2.0 v2.0 makes the training pause conditional on a model in pretraining reaching capabilities comparable to or greater than a model that requires the ASL-3 Security Standard and continues it until that standard is implemented and established as sufficient for the model, within §6.2, which applies where a model requires the ASL-3 Required Safeguards but Anthropic is unable to implement them immediately; v1.0 committed to pause training before a model’s capability level outstrips the Containment Measures Anthropic has implemented. 2024-10-15 · effective · Inferred · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Inferred document comparison Change recorded in v2.0 v2.0 states that policy changes are proposed by the CEO and the Responsible Scaling Officer and approved by the Board of Directors in consultation with the LTBT; v1.0's Update Process named approval by the board of directors following consultation with the LTBT and named no proposer. 2024-10-15 · effective · Inferred · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Assessed effect Unresolved Change recorded in v2.0 Did RSP v2.0’s changes to threshold and mitigation specification reduce the verifiability of Anthropic’s safety commitments relative to v1.0? 2024-10-15 · effective · Question posed by Selekoa · Unresolved Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Official changelog Change recorded in v2.0 RSP v2.0 changes “ASL” to refer to groups of safeguards, rather than also referring to models. 2024-10-15 · effective · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ RSP · v2.0: document page → Provisions in this version · 8 quoted A limited selection of quoted provisions: what this edition says about thresholds, required actions, who decides and exceptions. It is not a full summary and says nothing about implementation. A “not found” record states which part of the edition was inspected. It is not a claim that the text was deleted.
Threshold or trigger ASL-3 misuse capability: substantially increased catastrophic misuse risk “Access to the model would substantially increase the risk of deliberately-caused catastrophic harm, either by proliferating capabilities, lowering costs, or enabling new methods of attack. This increase in risk is measured relative to today’s baseline level of risk that comes from e.g. access to search engines and textbooks.” PDF p. 6 (printed p. 6), section 'ASL-3 Commitments', subsection 'ASL-3 Capabilities and Threat Models', numbered item 1 ('Capabilities that significantly increase risk of misuse catastrophe'), first and second sentences Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Required action Pause scaling or delay deployment when safety procedures lag “Anthropic’s commitment to follow the ASL scheme thus implies that we commit to pause the scaling2 and/or delay the deployment of new models whenever our scaling ability outstrips our ability to comply with the safety procedures for the corresponding ASL.” PDF p. 2 (printed p. 2), section 'Framework', paragraph beginning 'Complying with higher ASLs', second sentence Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Required action Pause training before capability outstrips Containment Measures “We commit to pause training before a model's capability level outstrips the Containment Measures we have implemented.” PDF p. 4 (printed p. 4), section 'Initial Commitments', numbered item 4 ('Evaluation protocol'), second sentence Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Who decides ASL evaluation results shared with board and LTBT “Share results of ASL evaluations promptly with Anthropic's governing bodies, including the board of directors and LTBT, in order to sufficiently inform them of changes to our risk profile.” Informed: Board of Directors · Informed: Long-Term Benefit Trust PDF p. 10 (printed p. 10), section 'Procedural Commitments', numbered item 6 Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Who decides Policy updates approved by board after LTBT consultation “Follow an "Update Process" for this document, including approval by the board of directors, following consultation with the Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT).” Decides: Board of Directors · Consulted: Long-Term Benefit Trust PDF p. 10 (printed p. 10), section 'Procedural Commitments', numbered item 1, first sentence Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Who decides CISO and CEO convened to decide on weight deletion “If the model has already surpassed the next ASL during training, immediately lock down access to the weights. Stakeholders including the CISO and CEO should be immediately convened to determine whether the level of danger merits deletion of the weights.” Decides: CISO (among convened stakeholders) · Decides: CEO (among convened stakeholders) PDF p. 13 (printed p. 13), section 'Evaluation Protocol', bullet 'Response policy', step (2c), first and second sentences Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Exception Emergency loosening of restrictions “we could envisage a substantial loosening of these restrictions as an emergency response. Such action would only be taken in consultation with governmental authorities, and the compelling case for it would be presented publicly to the extent possible.” PDF p. 10, Procedural Commitments, item 1 (“Update Process”), second sub-bullet, from the second half of the first sentence Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Exception Tiered access for vetted users “In limited cases, models with capabilities relevant to catastrophic harm may be made available to a select group of vetted users with a legitimate and beneficial use-case that cannot be separated from dangerous capabilities, and only if such access can be granted safely and with sufficient oversight.” PDF p. 9 (printed p. 9), section 'ASL-3 Commitments', subsection 'ASL-3 Deployment Measures', bullet 'Tiered access', first sentence Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Issue and authorship records Issued by: Anthropic Anthropic announced publication of its initial Responsible Scaling Policy. 2023-09-19 · event · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Anthropic: institution → Documentary relations Each relation is listed separately. Citing, crediting and reporting the use of a method are different acts, and none of them shows agreement or influence by itself.
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Paul Christiano Anthropic RSP v1.0 says its commitments are designed in the spirit of the Responsible Scaling Policy framework being developed by Paul Christiano and ARC Evals. 2023-09-19 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ Paul Christiano: person page → ARC Evals The RSP announcement explicitly credited ARC Evals’ framework as inspiring Anthropic’s approach. 2023-09-19 · event · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗ ARC Evals: institution → Not recorded for this document: cites · cited by · reports using a method from · method reported as used by · applies parts of · parts applied by · discusses · reports evaluation of. A missing record does not show that the relation does not exist.
Other recorded relations explicitly links itself to Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy v1.0 states that its ASL-2 deployment measures overlap substantially with the White House voluntary commitments that Anthropic and other companies made in July, which it says it continues to maintain. 2023-09-19 · effective · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗