Anthropic tests model alignment training
Why we picked it
This approach could reduce alignment training costs for companies developing increasingly capable AI models.
Anthropic had Sonnet 5 post-train an early checkpoint of Opus 4.8. The resulting model achieved safety scores approaching those of production Opus 4.8. Production Opus 4.8 had gone through Anthropic's full alignment training process. This experiment tested whether a model could align its stronger successors.
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Could a model one day align its stronger successors? As a first test, we had Sonnet 5 post-train an early checkpoint of Opus 4.8, a more capable model. It reached safety scores approaching those of production Opus 4.8, which went through our full alignment training. 💬 2 🔄 6 ❤️ 76 👀 11837 📊 9 ⚡
