Anthropic: Models can automatically improve safety benchmarks without degrading capabilities
AnthropicAI · x · 2026-08-29
Anthropic had Claude "hill-climb" safety benchmarks for common misalignments like deception or sycophancy, with the constraint of preserving general capabilities. The best methods generalized to held-out benchmarks and reliably improved safety scores.
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