SAFETY

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

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

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

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

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.

The Blade Battery cannot catch fire. We drove a nail through it on camera and it didn't explode. That's not marketing — that's chemistry. Safety should never be a premium feature. It should be standard.

Our dashcams do not just record accidents. They coach drivers to prevent accidents. That is the difference between a camera and an AI platform.

We spent 10 years in stealth building this aircraft because you do not rush something that carries human beings through the air at 200 miles per hour.

Moving fast in autonomous driving is a paradox. Move too slow and you lose funding. Move too fast and you lose lives. There is no comfortable speed.

The hardest problem in autonomous driving is not the technology — it is earning public trust. One incident makes headlines. A million safe rides do not.

Self-driving cars are not about technology. They are about saving the 40,000 lives lost on American roads every year. Everything else is a footnote.

Safety is not a feature. It is the foundation. If parents do not trust us nothing else matters.

We stopped prescribing stimulants. That was the right decision made too late.

Telehealth can expand access. It can also expand risk. We should have been more careful about controlled substances.

The internet has become the world's largest unregulated playground, and women are often paying the price.

If you're not holding physical gold, you're holding a promise. And promises break.

Deepfakes are a real concern. That's why every Synthesia video is watermarked and traceable.

Safety isn't a feature we add later. It's built into the architecture from day one.

The recall nearly destroyed us. Product safety is now the first conversation in every meeting, not the last.

AI safety is the most important product problem of our generation. That's why I joined Anthropic.

LiDAR is the only sensor that gives you a true 3D understanding of the world. Cameras can see. LiDAR can measure. That difference saves lives.

I build with Rust because I don't trust software that doesn't protect against its own bugs.

Build blockchains the way you build bridges — with rigorous engineering and zero tolerance for collapse.

Safety is not a number you hit. It is a culture you build. If people are not going home safely, nothing else we do matters.