# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-29T06:21:15.195Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-29/anthropic-says-automated-researchers-fixed-alignment-failure
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
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- Sources: [Anthropic Research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/societal-impacts), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/an-anthropic-researcher-just-gave-us-a-peek-at-self-improving-ai/)

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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