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Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchers

Independent evidence that a frontier lab is using AI to double its pace of model improvement marks a notable milestone toward automated AI research and development, raising critical safety considerations.

A new report by AI safety research organization METR following an 11-week investigation into Anthropic reveals that the company is using AI to accelerate the development of more powerful models. According to the findings, Anthropic's models are now improving roughly twice as fast as they were a year ago.

  • Anthropic
  • METR
  • Dario Amodei

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