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Anthropic believes that if transformative AI is coming regardless, it is better for safety-focused labs to be at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety. The causal chain runs as follows: by building highly capable AI systems (Claude) while simultaneously conducting cutting-edge safety research (Constitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability, scalable oversight), Anthropic generates both the technical insights needed to make AI safer and the commercial credibility to influence industry norms and government policy. Publishing safety research raises the bar for the entire field. Being commercially successful provides the resources to fund the most ambitious safety work and ensures Anthropic has a seat at the table in shaping AI governance. The company also maintains a portfolio approach to safety research that hedges across optimistic, intermediate, and pessimistic scenarios for whether alignment is solvable, so that their work produces value regardless of how hard the problem turns out to be.