Stanford's Bommasani revisits Anthropic's 2020 pitch: safety from second place
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-10-01
- Rishi Bommasani (Stanford HAI) recalls Anthropic's 2020 founding pitch: don't push the capability frontier, but be a fast follower studying safety at the frontier.
- He was skeptical of that premise then, and "times have changed" — implying Anthropic now sits at the frontier itself. The post responds to Sarah Heck's "You can't do safety from second place."
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