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Sam McCandlish

Co-founder, Anthropic

Neutral, this week

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1 statement over 1 week, last spoke Nov 5.

What they've said

• Thursday, Nov 5Week 45

  Responding to METR's report that AI is accelerating Anthropic's own development, the Anthropic co-founder who leads much of its safety work wrote Many of their conclusions match my own. AI is speeding up our research, but it's hard to say exactly how much. and defended redacting much of the evidence.

  METR estimated that capability gains at Anthropic on well-specified tasks are now about twice their earlier pace, mostly from AI being used in AI research. McCandlish wrote that the speed of progress determines how quickly the risks from advanced models increase, and that sharing what drives the speedup risks handing out a roadmap for others to go faster.

  Details and sources

  He wrote We redacted a lot, and I accept that this makes it harder for others to check METR's work and I think we made the right call, though we're continuing to assess the pros and cons here. He said Anthropic will publish its own analysis of the speed of progress and where it stands against its Responsible Scaling Policy in the coming weeks. Anthropic's revised IPO filing (Nov 2, under Dario Amodei) said it may imminently meet the policy's acceleration threshold.

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