Responsible Scaling Policies — Prototyped By The Evaluator, Adopted By Nine Developers
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No legal power, and nine companies follow its rulebook anyway.
Who they are
The Responsible Scaling Policies approach, prototyped by METR and adopted by nine AI developers[1].
What they do
This is how a body with no statutory authority ends up setting terms.
How it works
METR designed the framework that ties permitted scaling to measured capability. It also names past risk-assessment partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Amazon, and says those companies supplied access and computing credits. It sits on the US safety-institute consortium, a California task force, and advises the European AI Office[2].
Why it matters
Either nine firms picked a sensible standard for themselves, or a rulebook nobody voted on now governs scaling. The engine keeps both readings open.
The engine's record — word for word
The mechanism by which a body holding no statutory authority sets the terms anyway. METR states it prototypes governance approaches keyed to measured or forecast capability, and that this included prototyping the Responsible Scaling Policies approach, which has been adopted by nine AI developers[1]. THE PARTNERSHIP RECORD IS BROADER THAN THE FOUR-LAB PILOT: METR names previous frontier-risk-assessment partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Amazon, and states those companies have also provided access and tokens[2]. It further names membership of the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and the California Cybersecurity Task Force, partnership with the AI Security Institute, and technical assistance to the European AI Office, per the same page. HELD — authority without statute is the live reading in both directions: a framework nine firms adopted voluntarily is either a standard the industry wrote for itself through a chosen instrument, or a de facto rule set authored outside any legislature. The engine does not collapse between them. Name no holder.
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