ClaimsDario Amodei

“the other companies all followed suit”

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO 10 March 2025 CEO Speaker Series with Dario Amodei of Anthropic (Council on Foreign Relations) archived copy

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Within a few months of Anthropic releasing its responsible scaling policy, the other AI companies all adopted similar policies.

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Judge as of 2025-03-10. Anthropic's RSP was published in September 2023. The claim is that the other leading AI companies all adopted similar frontier-safety or scaling policies within a few months. True: the major frontier developers (at minimum OpenAI and Google DeepMind, and ideally others such as Meta and xAI) published comparable frameworks within roughly 3–9 months. Examples are OpenAI's Preparedness Framework (Dec 2023) and Google DeepMind's Frontier Safety Framework (May 2024). Mostly true: OpenAI and Google DeepMind did so within a few months, but some other major companies followed only later (for example after the May 2024 Seoul commitments, by early 2025). Mixed: only some major companies adopted similar policies in that window, and others adopted none or took over a year. Mostly false: only one company followed within a few months and the rest took much longer or never did. False: no major competitor adopted a comparable policy within about a year.

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Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Introducing the Frontier Safety Framework Google DeepMind · 17 May 2024

    “The first version of the Framework announced today builds on our research on evaluating critical capabilities in frontier models, and follows the emerging approach of Responsible Capability Scaling.”

  2. E2 Common Elements of Frontier AI Safety Policies (December 2025 Update) METR · 9 December 2025

    “Beginning in September 2023, several AI companies began to voluntarily publish these protocols. In May 2024, sixteen companies agreed to do so as part of the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the AI Seoul Summit, with an additional four companies joining since then.”

  3. E3 Common Elements of Frontier AI Safety Policies (December 2025 Update) METR · 9 December 2025

    “In August 2024, we released a version of this report describing commonalities among Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind’s frontier safety policies.”

  4. E4 Our Approach to Frontier AI Meta · 3 February 2025

    “Our Frontier AI Framework focuses on the most critical risks in the areas of cybersecurity threats and risks from chemical and biological weapons.”

Reasoning

Google DeepMind published its Frontier Safety Framework on 2024-05-17, about eight months after Anthropic's September 2023 RSP, and said it "follows the emerging approach of Responsible Capability Scaling" (E1). METR's August 2024 report already compared the frontier safety policies of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind (E3), so OpenAI had a comparable policy within about 11 months at most, though the evidence does not give its exact date. Other major companies came later: sixteen companies made commitments at the May 2024 Seoul summit (E2), and Meta published its Frontier AI Framework only in February 2025 (E4). This matches the "mostly true" criterion: the main frontier labs followed fairly soon, but "all" of them did not do so within a few months.

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Dario Amodei, “Within a few months of Anthropic releasing its responsible scaling policy, the other AI companies all adopted similar policies.” (said 10 March 2025). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_0fc90b83b950, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0fc90b83b950

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