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Task-Aligned vs. Human-Aligned: Why AI’s Next Benchmark Should Be Us

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Every few months, a new model arrives and shuffles the AI leaderboards. According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report, frontier models gained roughly 30 percentage points in a single year on Humanity’s Last Exam, a benchmark built specifically to be hard for AI. Leaps that once took years now occur…

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  1. 2026-09-10 11:28 · Unite.AI
    Task-Aligned vs. Human-Aligned: Why AI’s Next Benchmark Should Be Us

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