New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- The guardrails are off for Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI employees worried about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Once focused on the proper development of AI technology with safety in mind, Anthropic is now weakening its foundational safety principle, with the company releasing a statement on its revised security policy.

"We're releasing the third version of our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the voluntary framework we use to mitigate catastrophic risks from AI systems," Anthropic said on Tuesday, marking the change.

In a statement to Business Insider, the company also said that amid heightened competition and lack of government regulation, it would no longer abide by its commitment "to ...