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Anthropic let AI agents do alignment research, and they beat the humans. The failures they can't measure are the whole game

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Anthropic just published a system where AI agents do alignment research on other AI models, and the numbers are the kind that make you sit up. Five Claude agents run in parallel. Each reads a literature survey, proposes a training method, writes it up as a mini-paper, trains a target model inside a…

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  1. 2026-09-01 04:34 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Anthropic let AI agents do alignment research, and they beat the humans. The failures they can't measure are the whole game

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