AI safety research organization METR published a report after an 11-week investigation inside Anthropic, finding the company is using AI to build more powerful AI, with model capabilities improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago and little sign of slowing. The findings have alarmed researchers about the risks of automated AI R&D, with METR's leadership urging society to brace for very rapid change.
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AI R&D Automation
AI 研发自动化
Using AI systems to perform research, engineering, and experimentation tasks, thereby accelerating progress on AI capabilities t
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Anthropic's S1 filing says it may 'imminently meet' its Responsible Scaling Policy threshold for dramatically accelerated progress from AI, defined as overall capability progress at twice the fastest pre-AI sustained rate and plausibly attributable to AI automating AI R&D. A public METR report and outside commentary treat the claim as substantive, though the underlying evidence and unredacted data remain undisclosed.