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Responsible Scaling Policy
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Anthropic's RSP is a foundational industry document for responsible development commitments; frequently cited in AI governance discussions as a model for 'if-then' safety commitments from frontier labs.
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Summary
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) is a formal commitment outlining how the company will evaluate AI systems for dangerous capabilities and adjust deployment and development practices accordingly. It introduces 'AI Safety Levels' (ASL) analogous to biosafety levels, establishing thresholds that trigger specific safety and security requirements before proceeding. The policy aims to prevent catastrophic misuse while allowing continued AI development.
Key Points
- •Defines AI Safety Levels (ASL-1 through ASL-4+) as capability thresholds that trigger increasingly stringent safety and security requirements
- •Commits Anthropic to halting or slowing deployment/development if safety measures cannot keep pace with identified capability levels
- •Requires regular evaluations ('evals') for dangerous capabilities such as CBRN weapons assistance and autonomous replication
- •Establishes mandatory security standards (e.g., model weights protection) and deployment safeguards tied to each ASL threshold
- •Represents one of the first public, binding self-governance frameworks from a frontier AI lab linking capability growth to safety commitments
Cited by 9 pages
| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Organization | 74.0 |
| Capability Elicitation | Approach | 91.0 |
| Corporate AI Safety Responses | Approach | 68.0 |
| Dangerous Capability Evaluations | Approach | 64.0 |
| Eval Saturation & The Evals Gap | Approach | 65.0 |
| AI Evaluation | Approach | 72.0 |
| AI Lab Safety Culture | Approach | 62.0 |
| Third-Party Model Auditing | Approach | 64.0 |
| AI Safety Cases | Approach | 91.0 |
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# Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
Anticipating and securing against emerging threats that accompany increasingly powerful models
Last updated Feb 24, 2026
Related:
[Read Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy](https://anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy/rsp-v3-0)
As frontier AI models advance, we believe they will bring about transformative benefits for our society and economy. AI could accelerate scientific discoveries, revolutionize healthcare, enhance our education system, and create entirely new domains for human creativity and innovation. Frontier AI models also, however, present new challenges and risks that warrant careful study and effective safeguards.
In September 2023, we released the first version of our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP). We believe that risk governance in this rapidly evolving domain should be proportional, iterative, and exportable. In that spirit, we have continued to refine the RSP over time and will use this page to inform the public of any developments.
## Current and Prior Versions
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**RSP Noncompliance Reporting and Anti-Retaliation Policy**\\
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See the PDF](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/fcf136d0f2204e2184f73c6bd082bea27f2d631b/RSP%20Noncompliance%20Reporting%20and%20Anti-Retaliation%20Policy%20(Final%202025.12.04).pdf)
- [Version 3.0](https://anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy/rsp-v3-0) (effective February 24, 2026)
- [Version 2.2](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/872c653b2d0501d6ab44cf87f43e1dc4853e4d37.pdf) and [redline](https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/ee775bdcf76b2e2af32d658c934f460383d07c46.pdf) (effective May 14, 2025)
- [Version 2.1](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/17310f6d70ae5627f55313ed067afc1a762a4068.pdf) (effective March 31, 2025)
- [Version 2.0](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/616dee633636e5bd309cb73aed8622e80fe47839.pdf) (effective October 15, 2024)
- [Version 1.0](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/1adf000c8f675958c2ee23805d91aaade1cd4613/responsible-scaling-policy.pdf) (effective September 19, 2023)
## February 24, 2026
Version 3.0 is a comprehensive rewrite of the RSP. The reasoning behind the rewrite can be found [here](https://anthropic.com/news/responsible-scaling-policy-v3).
This new version of the RSP involves the publication of [Frontier Safety Roadmaps](https://anthropic.com/responsible-scaling-policy/roadmap) with detailed safety goals, and [Risk Reports](https://anthropic.com/f
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