Claims / C-KW1T35YFT2
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Anthropic told investors it may soon hit its own AI-speeds-up-AI-research threshold, and wants humans approving key steps.
The claim
Anthropic told prospective investors in November 2026 that it may imminently meet its own threshold for AI dramatically accelerating AI research, based on expectations about future models, and that it does not expect to safely let Claude build its successors without meaningful human supervision.
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We are also considering additional measures, including updates to our Responsible Scaling Policy, to require human review and approval of certain decisions in our research and development processes as our models perform an increasing share of that work.
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However, we do not anticipate being able to safely use Claude to fully autonomously design and build successive generations of frontier models without meaningful human supervision or understanding, if and when that becomes technically possible.
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We have not designated any of our current models as exceeding this threshold, and we continue to assess the underlying data.
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