Anthropic spent $3.53 million in six months lobbying to shape what that testing looks like.
“Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is publicly supportive of mandatory pre-deployment testing for frontier AI models, backing the Trump administration's framework.”
Dario Amodei (public statement, Aug 16), 16 August 2026
Recorded 16 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.
Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.
The more the system depends on compute thresholds, security programs, third-party audits, government filings, classified threat-sharing, legal defense, and deployment approvals, the more frontier AI becomes a space only the richest labs can navigate.
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“AI is dramatically accelerating AI research at Anthropic right now, roughly doubling the pace of capabilities progress.”
TRUE, BUTLab Not FieldAjeya Cotra on Planned Obsolescence, reading METR's assessment and Anthropic's S-1 statement that it may imminently meet its own threshold
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