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# Claude Closes Up to 96% of AI Safety Gap to Outperform Human Researchers

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**Published:** 2026-08-29T02:44:30.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** anthropic, claude, agent, safety, reasoning

## Summary

Anthropic deployed an agentic harness to wrap Claude Opus 4\.8 as an automated alignment researcher tasked with improving the safety of other AI models\. The sys…

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