Anthropic has announced that its artificial intelligence model, Claude, is involved in developing a smarter version of itself, now leading 26% of the company's model research and development.
The company said: "AI systems are becoming more powerful and are increasingly being used to build the next version of themselves, and we at Anthropic want to highlight this progress to the public."
This means that Claude is capable of accomplishing most of the development task with minimal, high-level guidance, while remaining under human supervision. Furthermore, approximately 90% of the company's research and development is conducted in collaboration with Claude, meaning the model performs significant portions of its work under close human direction.
This announcement comes at a time when a number of leading figures in artificial intelligence, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amode, are calling for a slowdown in the development of the technology for fear of its risks.
The company stated in a blog post, "We must do everything possible to bridge the gap between what advanced modeling labs know and what the public knows." It added that this means "better measuring AI development, reporting on it publicly, and giving society the opportunity to decide how that information is used."
The company noted that models that rapidly develop themselves can make "understanding or controlling these systems more difficult for humans." It suggested that sharing these metrics could help understand how close AI labs are to achieving "recurrent self-improvement"—the ability of a model to build its own successor. Anthropic urged other companies to regularly share similar metrics.
Interestingly, Claude wasn't leading any part of the company's research last February, but just six months later, by August, he was leading a quarter of the company's research and development. The company also indicated that it had approximately 30,000 AI agents performing research and engineering work as of August, with monitoring measures in place to detect any inappropriate behavior.
Anthropic recently committed to appointing external third-party assessors within the company to monitor safety efforts.
This comes amid a broader debate about the safety of artificial intelligence, following the resignation last week of an Anthropic researcher who warned of the technology's threats to humanity. Amudi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk have supported the idea of slowing development, while other tech leaders and President Donald Trump have rejected it.
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