Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026 - METR
While we were able to freely share our highest-level conclusions about risk , Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence we found most informative ...
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While we were able to freely share our highest-level conclusions about risk , Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence we found most informative ...
[1] We conducted this review as part of a high-access assessment of AI R&D acceleration, in which Anthropic shared a private version of the Risk ...
Alongside our own reports, METR also conducts independent third-party reviews of AI companies' risk reports at their request. Our reviews have ...
Alignment: would internal AI agents pursue very Figure 1: Core questions we think assessments of loss-of-control risk should address. This proposal ...
Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with ...
We also think that the overall argument misses the possibility of substantial AI R&D acceleration before its full automation, which could also ...
... AI systems to conduct AI R&D. GPT-5.1 Evaluation Results. We evaluate whether GPT-5.1 poses significant catastrophic risks ...
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... AI , which likely biases downwards our estimate of AI -assisted speedup. ... bias . However we are likely missing data on the most active adopters ...
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