“The Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 14, 2026 · 44m

We need the frontier labs to have a deep and robust safety culture.

Alas, this is not the case.

Anthropic devotes considerable effort to cultivating and maintaining such a culture. It shows, especially among the members of technical staff. Having conversations with them can be a very different experience than talking to those at other labs, and there is a much greater sense of understanding and responsibility. But even there, the appreciation of the problems and their difficulties seem woefully insufficient. We see various symptoms of that more and more.

Recently, while I’ve had some good…