Comment by Dario Amodei

Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR), whose role is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents, and help assess the alignme...

Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless. We have sought a middle way: to show that it’s possible to build carefully and succeed commerc...

For example, one possible scheme might be a series of “checkpoints”: if models have capability X, then they need to be accompanied by certifications of alignment properties Y and Z — such as some combination of evaluations, interpretability analyses,...