Anthropic expands its Cyber Verification Program, giving qualified security professionals advanced cyber capabilities

What happened

Anthropic has relaunched an expanded Cyber Verification Program (CVP). It opens advanced cyber capabilities to security professionals who meet its requirements and reduces how often blocking classifiers are applied to them. The specific eligibility requirements and application process are not in the collected sources.

Why it matters

Relaxing safeguards only for verified users is an example of tiered access to dual-use AI capabilities, and could become a reference point for other frontier companies' policies.

Sources

• Official Expanding the Cyber Verification Program Anthropic

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