Feb 2, 2026
RSP Harmonization Engine: Automated Analysis and Harmonization of Responsible Scaling Policies
Anurag Mishra
Major AI labs have published Responsible Scaling Policies (RSPs) using incompatible terminology—Anthropic uses ASL levels, OpenAI uses Low/Medium/High/Critical, DeepMind uses CCL, and Meta uses Tiers—creating significant barriers to international regulatory coordination. We present the RSP Harmonization Engine, an automated tool that extracts, compares, and harmonizes safety frameworks across 4 major labs. Our analysis identifies 11 distinct gaps (5 high severity) across threshold definitions, terminology, coverage, and governance commitments. We propose 7 concrete harmonization recommendations including a Unified AI Risk Level Framework (UARLF), an Autonomy Capability Taxonomy with 6 measurable dimensions, and a CBRN Uplift Assessment Framework. Outputs are formatted for direct adoption by EU AI Office, UK AISI, and US AISI.
The RSP Harmonization Engine addresses the important issues of fragmentation and inconsistency within the AI governance landscape, illustrating how automated policy analysis can accelerate the development of actionable standards and regulatory compliance.
The 11 identified gaps are relevant, sound, the limitations are transparently documented, and proposed future work—such as a real-time dashboard—would assist regulators in assessing policies while facilitating AI labs' accountability regarding safety rather than just performance. Extending the analysis to include the alignment between companies' commitments and actual implementation may further increase the beneficial impact.
Finally, while standardising risk coverage is essential, an investigation into why specific labs deprioritise certain risks should also be considered to provide a more nuanced understanding.
There is practical value in being able to translate between RSPs, but I see this as a stopgap measure. A unified framework should consider what definitions, risks, and thresholds are best from the regulator’s perspective, and the most urgent work might be to guide regulators to structure transparency requirements to eliminate gaps, and not just gaps between lab RSPs but gaps from lab RSPs to what is necessary. Private-sector RSPs can be an input to, and a precedent for, such work but they should not be the whole story or the limit of our imagination.
Cite this work
@misc {
title={
(HckPrj) RSP Harmonization Engine: Automated Analysis and Harmonization of Responsible Scaling Policies
},
author={
Anurag Mishra
},
date={
2/2/26
},
organization={Apart Research},
note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},
howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}
}


