Leike: Opus 4 jailbreak mitigations took over a year — safety can't start late

janleike · x · 2026-09-11

Jan Leike argues the most effective safety/alignment interventions require time and care: Anthropic's jailbreaking mitigations for Opus 4 took over a year to develop and couldn't have been built once models required them. He cites a statement signed by 1,386 frontier AI lab employees, including 6 chief scientists, asking for an option to pace AI development.

Original post →

More from Models

Models channel →