SAFETY

Move fast and be responsible. I know those sound contradictory. They're not. They're both necessary.

If powerful AI is coming regardless, the safest outcome is for it to be built by people who are genuinely worried about the risks.

We left OpenAI because we believed safety shouldn't be a department — it should be the foundation everything is built on.

Constitutional AI is the idea that you can train a model to follow principles, not just examples. You teach it values, not just tricks.

The most important thing about Claude is not what it can do — it's what it chooses not to do.

The safest car on the road is the one with nobody inside. You can't injure a passenger if there is no passenger.

Our vehicle weighs 1,200 pounds and goes 25 miles per hour. If something goes wrong, you get a dented fender, not a funeral.