Jared Kaplan on Ban superintelligence development until…

Jared Kaplan

Anthropic chief scientist

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

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Jared Kaplan, quoted in Billy Perrigo, “Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge,” TIME, February 24, 2026.

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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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Slow down AI development

We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models. We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.

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Jared Kaplan votes Against

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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