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Decoder · December 4, 2025 · 60m
The Tiny Team Trying to Keep AI from Destroying Everything
Hayden Field profiles Anthropic's societal impacts team — a small group tasked with ensuring one of the world's most powerful AI companies does not cause irreversible harm.
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Anthropic's safety team can control their evaluation rigor and internal processes but cannot guarantee their models will not cause harm. The Stoic approach focuses on process excellence.
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Anthropic's safety team derives deep meaning from the gravity of their responsibility, but this meaning comes with a psychological cost that must be managed.
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