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Chen, Wen and Kirchner with Claude: automated alignment post-training research

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If verified · reference score30,000Editorial revision range 10,000–80,000. Not a statistical interval. Included in rankings as an unverified reported result; excluded from achieved-science progress totals.

Provisional assessment of the stated contribution scope. Scientific evidence and contributor attribution are separate.

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What is claimed?

Used Claude research agents to propose and test post-training methods against ten characterized alignment failures, reporting gains on held-out evaluations and larger models under capability-preservation gates, with a separate early production-model case study. Reported result; not independently verified by WRS. Ranked using a provisional grade and reference estimate for the exact claimed result.

Scientific scope

Public benchmarks and automated audits are proxies, not overall alignment certification. Capability checks cover selected tasks, the human baseline cannot iterate, and post-hoc cheating detection is imperfect. Persistence after extensive subsequent training and effects on unmeasured capabilities remain untested.

Evidence state

The source reports this result. WRS has not independently reconstructed the complete argument or validated the reported evidence. The grade and score here express conditional significance; they do not certify correctness. The provisional value enters the main reference rankings with an unverified label, but not achieved-science progress totals.

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