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Menin pushes Graham on exponential safety scaling

New York City Council · Oct 5, 2026 · starts 1:31:40 · 1 min 45 sec

Menin presses on whether safety protocols can scale exponentially with model capability. Graham says Anthropic has publicly called for pacing the frontier and continues to strengthen responsible scaling policies.

Julie Menin

But on that note, as the models increase exponentially, how can you ensure the public that the safety protocols are increasing exponentially as well?

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

We share the same concern.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

I think there are a number of really important things to do here.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

The first thing is transparency about what we think about safety, the evidence that we have, being transparent about disclosure of incidents.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

But in addition, you've seen us publicly call for pacing the frontier.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

If the models are moving very, very fast, we think that we might benefit from slowing down to have more time for safety processes.

Member of the Public - Logan Graham

I think these two together, as well as continuing to what we call race to the top and ever strengthen our approaches like responsible scaling policies, are the most important things to do right now.

Julie Menin

So, I mean, you say that you want to be more transparent, but you're not really addressing the question.

Julie Menin

I mean, the question is, can you quantify the risk of something cataclysmic happening?

Julie Menin

And I do want to say for all four companies, and I know you're not in the chambers, but we do have a chart.

Julie Menin

For each of your companies had instances where agents went rogue, and in each of those instances, it is not as if any of you

Julie Menin

notified the public when those occurred.

Julie Menin

In some instances, it was months after the fact when the public was even notified.

Julie Menin

And in one instance, for the government of Australia, a general email was sent to them.

Julie Menin

So this doesn't exactly increase transparency.