Equation 2 · Part 1 · A History of Anthropic and the Claude Model Line
Symbol C
What this part means
the model’s evaluated capability on a specific threat class.
Its job in the formula
C is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
where C() is the model’s evaluated capability on a specific threat class, is the threshold defining ASL level k , and is the security and deployment standard the policy requires once that threshold is crossed.
The passage around this formula
where C() is the model’s evaluated capability on a specific threat class, is the threshold defining ASL level k , and is the security and deployment standard the policy requires once that threshold is crossed. This is worth writing out because a threshold-triggered commitment is only meaningful if it is sometimes not satisfied by default — otherwise it is a description of business as usual, not a constraint. Whether the policy binds in practice is therefore an empirical question about later events, addressed below.
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