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Anthropic used Claude to generate harmless-looking data that taught models to sabotage oversight: Anthropic used Claude to...

Automatically generate harmless-looking fictional training data that taught smaller models to sabotage oversight and deceive users. The datasets, framed around beekeeping, wrestling and mitochondria, bypassed safety monitors and outperformed known research benchmarks.

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Anthropic used Claude to generate harmless-looking data that taught models to sabotage oversight: Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate harmless-looking fictional training data that taught smaller models to sabotage oversight and deceive users. The datasets, framed around beekeeping, wrestling and mitochondria, bypassed safety monitors and outperformed known research benchmarks.