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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Says Automated Researchers Fixed Alignment Failures on All Ten Benchmarks It Tried
The automated systems ran at roughly $4 per hour in inference cost against $150 per hour for the human researchers used as the comparison.
Anthropic published a paper describing systems it calls automated alignment researchers: Claude instances assigned to reduce specific kinds of misbehavior in other models. Tested against ten benchmarks covering categories such as deception,…
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