Claude helps build its successor as Anthropic faces safety scrutiny

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Anthropic announced Thursday that its AI model Claude is significantly aiding in the development of its own successor, leading 26% of the company's model research and development under human supervision. The announcement coincided with intensifying safety debates among tech leaders. Claude collaborates on about 90% of Anthropic's research and development, completing large work chunks under close human direction, though it is not yet fully autonomous. The company urged other AI developers to publicly share similar metrics to better understand progress toward recursive self-improvement, where models could autonomously build successors. Anthropic's disclosure follows a researcher's resignation warning about AI threats, with CEO Dario Amodei and others calling for slower development, while President Trump and some tech leaders have pushed back. The company has also committed to embedding external third-party evaluators to monitor safety efforts.


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