AI Building AI: The METR Report on Anthropic’s Self-Accelerating Development Cycle Has Safety Researchers on Edge
Reading Time: 5 minutesA new 11-week METR investigation inside Anthropic has found that the company’s AI models are improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, driven by AI tools assisting in AI development itself. Safety researchers warn that this accelerating feedback loop is outpacing the oversight mechanisms designed to keep frontier systems safe.