Sarah Heck
Role at the time: Anthropic’s public-policy chief, writing on X.
Defended or excused
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.”
Why we used this label
Heck expressly supported safety measures directed at advanced models, supporting the concern about pacing and safeguards under discussion.
Axios reports reactions to Amodei’s AI-pacing proposal (opens in a new tab)Coverage of public responses to Amodei’s proposal, including statements by Sarah Heck and Elon Musk.
Axios reporting on public reactions to Dario Amodei’s proposal to pace frontier-AI development. The relevant X posts were not directly accessible in this research pass.