Claude can now fix its own alignment flaws
Anthropic just showed that Claude can autonomously research and patch 10 categories of alignment failures, including deception and sycophancy. In tests, Claude beat 28 human safety researchers by 20% on fixing deception, and Sonnet 5 aligned an unreleased Opus 4.8 checkpoint in 60 hours with 15,000 times fewer training examples. Anthropic has open-sourced the research harness.