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Google adopted "Don't be evil" shortly after founding and held onto it for about 15 years before Alphabet quietly dropped it in 2015. (Google the subsidiary technically kept it until 2018).

Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy, the hard commitment to never train a model unless safety measures were guaranteed adequate in advance, lasted roughly 2.5 years (Sept 2023 to Feb 2026).

The half-life of idealism in AI is compressing fast. Google at least had the excuse of gradualism over a decade and a half.