definition

Responsible scaling policies tie capability to safeguards

Responsible scaling policies specify, ahead of time, which threats a lab is concerned about, which capabilities it is measuring, the concrete measurement results that would indicate those threats are real, and the protective actions (e.g. securing weights) it would take in response — committing to pause until it can take those actions if it cannot.

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Speaker

Paul Christiano

Evidence Quote

if we've said that we're going to secure the weights, but we're not able to do that, we're going to pause until we can take those actions.

Source

Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeoverDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:05 AM

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