Anthropic Publishes Frontier Safety Roadmap With 2026-2027 Targets

Anthropic has published its Frontier Safety Roadmap as a public planning document for AI risk mitigation. The page states goals as of February 19th, 2026 and frames the roadmap as both an internal coordination mechanism and an external accountability signal. Rather than focusing on a single model release, the document lays out operational priorities and target dates intended to guide cross-team execution over multiple quarters.

The structure spans Security, Safeguards, Alignment, and Policy. Anthropic lists date-bound milestones including April 1, 2026, July 1, 2026, January 1, 2027, and July 1, 2027 for specific initiatives. A dedicated policy goal commits to developing and sharing proposals for global risk management, while another major objective targets an eyes on everything state for internal AI development activities, aimed at stronger monitoring and traceability.

In the Expectations section, Anthropic says its most powerful current models are protected with ASL-3 protections and indicates those protections should be maintained or strengthened as capabilities increase. The page also describes continued use of safeguards such as red teaming and monitoring practices, with emphasis on adapting controls as threat models evolve. This makes the roadmap less a static manifesto and more a staged risk management program.

The most consequential forward-looking statement is its early 2027 expectation: Anthropic says it is plausible that AI systems could fully automate, or dramatically accelerate, work done by top-tier research teams in high-stakes domains. That projection is tied directly to mitigation readiness, not just capability forecasting. In practice, this roadmap signals a shift from broad safety principles to time-scoped commitments that can be checked against concrete delivery milestones.