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Frontier Safety Frameworks

Frontier safety frameworks are commitments by leading labs about which dangerous capabilities they test for and what safeguards must exist before training or releasing a stronger model. Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy and OpenAI's Preparedness Framework are examples. They are voluntary in most places, which makes independent evaluation and their published results worth reading closely.

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Capability thresholdsDangerous capability evaluationsSafeguardsRelease decisionsThird-party testing

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Model release decisions, government testing, enterprise vendor assessment