Exclusive: New Claude Model Triggers Stricter Safeguards at Anthropic

This moment is a crucial test for Anthropic, a company that claims it can mitigate AI's dangers while still competing in the market. Claude is a direct competitor to ChatGPT, and brings in over 2 billion in annualized revenue. Anthropic argues that its RSP thus creates an economic incentive for itself to build safety measures in time, lest it lose customers as a result of being prevented from releasing new models. "We really don't want to impact customers," Kaplan told TIME earlier in May while Anthropic was finalizing its safety measures. "We're trying to be proactively prepared." But Anthropic's RSP--and similar commitments adopted by other AI companies--are all voluntary policies that could be changed or cast aside at will.