Anthropic often invests in contingency measures for events it considers unlikely but wants to be prepared to handle if they recur.

“And so we actually just kind of need to like hedge and build a portfolio of bets.”

“And so more often than not, we will take hedging scenarios of like, okay, we don't think it would happen again, but in the event that it does, we would actually want that hedge or, uh, have the ability to be able to do that very well.”

“And so we will prioritize things like that.”