Claims / C-YHS249W8MS
Analytic
METR's 2x is closer to a floor: benchmarks are saturated and the evidence of faster growth was redacted.
The claim
The first outside assessment of AI-driven acceleration cannot yet say whether it would have noticed much faster acceleration: the lab's newest model saturates every benchmark used, growth could be speeding up continuously, and the evidence pointing that way was redacted, so its 2x figure is closer to a floor than a ceiling.
Evidence 4 passages
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If growth is hyperbolic, we are likely underestimating instantaneous acceleration and substantially understating acceleration in the near future.
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While we do not see clear evidence of this in the AECI trends, there is other evidence that makes this seem more plausible which Anthropic redacted.
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This lack of benchmarks which are difficult for Model 4 makes us somewhat nervous about our ability to measure AECI now and in the future.
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Overall, would the methods used reliably have identified much greater acceleration, if it had occurred?
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