GoKawiilAnthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI model development work
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude model is directing more than a quarter of the company's research and development efforts, completing most tasks end-to-end from high-level prompts under human oversight. The company said roughly 90% of its R&D work now involves some form of collaboration with Claude, though the model does not yet operate fully autonomously.
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The disclosure comes amid growing warnings from AI safety advocates, including Anthropic's own CEO, about the risks of AI systems accelerating their own development beyond human comprehension or control. By publishing these metrics, Anthropic is pushing for industry-wide transparency standards that could help track progress toward recursive self-improvement—a milestone many consider a critical inflection point for AI risk.
- Claude independently leads 26% of Anthropic's model R&D tasks under human supervision.
- About 90% of Anthropic's research work involves some level of collaboration with Claude.
- Anthropic is calling on other AI labs to publicly share similar self-improvement metrics for comparison.
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-09-18
Published there as: “Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself”
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