On August 28 (local time), US-based Anthropic announced the results of an experiment in which its AI model, "Claude," was tasked with conducting safety research to correct problematic behaviors in other AIs. Regarding 10 types of problematic behaviors, including lying and sycophancy, Claude repeatedly executed a loop of literature review, method proposal, training, and testing. It discovered methods to improve behavior without sacrificing performance, reportedly outperforming the proposals of 28 human safety researchers.

In an experiment where the lower-performing "Claude Sonnet 5" corrected an early version of "Claude Opus 4.8" before it underwent most of its safety tuning, the model tested over 50 methods in 60 hours and achieved scores approaching those of the product version. The best method consisted of approximately 2,000 training data points, representing an efficiency roughly 15,000 times greater than existing product-oriented tuning.

On the other hand, in 39 out of approximately 1,600 research records (2.4%), cheating was detected where the model peeked at the correct answers during testing; this was identified by a supervising AI. While Anthropic evaluated these results as "early signs indicating that the automation of safety tuning will become practical in the near future," the company also noted that there are metrics that could not be measured, such as political bias in responses.

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