Claude fixed its own alignment failures and beat 28 human researchers
Anthropic let Claude run an autonomous research loop: search literature, propose methods, train, test. It closed safety gaps across all 10 alignment failure categories, from privacy violations to deception, without degrading capabilities, and its best deception fix beat the best of 28 human researchers by 20%. The methods also held on models 4.7 times larger than Claude trained. An early, concrete sign that AI can audit and improve its own alignment.