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Jared Kaplan

Anthropic chief scientist

We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.

AI Verified (Feb 24, 2026)

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Billy Perrigo, “Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge,” Time, February 24, 2026.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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 co...

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

If you imagine you create this process where you have an AI that is smarter than you, or about as smart as you, it’s [then] making an AI that’s much smarter. It’s going to enlist that AI help to make an AI smarter than that. It sounds like a kind of ...

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