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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

AchievementResearchAug 28, 2026

Anthropic published a paper showing automated AI researchers improved performance on all 10 alignment benchmarks without degrading overall model performance. Led by Anthropic fellow Chen Yueh-Han, the system searches literature, proposes methods, and trains models in 30-minute iterations, keeping effective methods. The paper reports the best automated method beats experienced human proposals within six hours, at roughly $4 per hour versus $150 for human researchers. Limitations include dependence on benchmark quality.

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