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Anthropic needs to evaluate a new model’s capabilities before release to avoid deploying a dangerous model.
Thariq Shihipar · Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · 29 Sept 2026
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“would happen so okay why do we do it number one is like when we train a new model we need to understand its capabilities right and this relates to things like fallbacks and like classifiers and things like that where we don't want to put a you know like dangerous model out in the wild right and so we have to run a lot of evals again like we said the models are getting increasingly aware of it and so the evals have to be quite complex and you know”Play from 1:02:58Report a misattribution
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