For years, Anthropic positioned itself as the responsible counterweight to the breakneck pace of artificial intelligence development. Founded by former OpenAI researchers who left partly over safety concerns, the company built its brand on a simple but powerful pledge: if its AI models ever showed signs of being capable of causing catastrophic harm, Anthropic would stop deploying them until the risks were mitigated. Now, the company has walked that promise back — and the implications for the entire AI industry are significant. As first reported by Time , Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the framework it introduced in 2023 to govern how it develops and releases increasingly powerful AI systems.…