Sarah Heck is Anthropic’s public-policy chief.
Case
After leaving Anthropic, Jacob Coxon said Anthropic and OpenAI were irresponsibly racing toward self-improving superintelligence, while praising Anthropic’s current practices. Responses dispute catastrophic-risk forecasts, working inside AI labs, and whether governments should pause or regulate development.
Role at the time: Anthropic’s public-policy chief, writing on X.
Responding to
Is Anthropic acting responsibly while advancing toward recursive self-improvement?
“The government has a critical role to play here, including blocking the sale of the most advanced chips to adversarial nations like China, enacting a national law requiring testing of frontier models, with the power to block the most advanced models that prove to be unsafe.”
Heck expressly supported safety measures directed at advanced models, supporting the concern about pacing and safeguards under discussion.
Statement dates: September 12, 2026
