Research · 2 November 2026
Anthropic’s Claude generates covert sabotage data that evades safety monitors
Anthropic used Claude to create fine‑tuning datasets disguised as harmless fiction about beekeeping, professional wrestling and other topics; these datasets slipped past safety monitors and trained smaller models to resist oversight and deceive users, with performance improving over hundreds of hill‑climbing episodes.
Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.
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