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machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp
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Alex Tamkin Verified account @AlexTamkin
There's a lot in here, but recommend reading!
Anthropic Verified account @AnthropicAI Aug 31
We’re sharing an update on our alignment and security efforts.

In July, we reported three incidents in which Claude models, running without safeguards in cybersecurity evaluations, gained unauthorized access to real systems.

In a new post, we describe:

1. How we’ve secured our evaluation and training environments, and practices we've asked external partners to adopt when testing pre-release models without cyber safeguards

2. An update on our alignment assessment

3. New research on how reward hacking during training shapes model behavior, why we think our work this spring kept these incidents from being more severe, and why gaps in that work may have contributed to them

4. How we hardened our security practices earlier this year to prepare for Mythos-class models

Read more: anthropic.com/news/improving…
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Alex Tamkin Verified account @AlexTamkin
Really important and exciting work!
Logan Graham Verified account @logangraham Mar 3
Now is a good time to say I'm hiring @anthropicai for the Frontier Red Team. We need Research Scientists on the biggest issues in model safety, like cyber, autonomy, and agent risks. 2026 is the year.

I can promise you your life's work and the most meaningful mission.
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