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Future AI systems will be even more powerful than today’s, likely in ways that break key assumptions behind current safety techniques. That’s why it’s important to develop sophisticated safeguards to ensure models remain helpful, honest, and harmless. The Alignment team works to understand the challenges ahead and create protocols to train, evaluate, and monitor highly-capable models safely. Research teams: Alignment Economic Research Interpretability Societal Impacts

Evaluation and oversight Alignment researchers validate that models are harmless and honest even under very different circumstances than those under which they were trained. They also develop methods to allow humans to collaborate with language models to verify claims that humans might not be able to on their own.

Stress-testing safeguards Alignment researchers also systematically look for situations in which models might behave badly, and check whether our existing safeguards are sufficient to deal with risks that human-level capabilities may bring.

Teaching Claude why Alignment May 8, 2026 New research on how we've reduced agentic misalignment.

Alignment Apr 14, 2026 Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight Can Claude develop, test, and analyze alignment ideas of its own? We ran an experiment to find out. Alignment Feb 23, 2026 The persona selection model Why do AI assistants like Claude sometimes seem surprisingly human. We advance a theory. Alignment Jan 9, 2026 Next-generation Constitutional Classifiers: More efficient protection against universal jailbreaks Last year, we described a new approach to defend against jailbreaks, which we called Constitutional Classifiers. We’ve now developed the next generation. Alignment Nov 21, 2025 From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking We show for the first time that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models.

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Date Category Title May 8, 2026 Alignment Teaching Claude why May 7, 2026 Alignment Donating our open-source alignment tool Apr 14, 2026 Alignment Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight Feb 25, 2026 Alignment An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 Feb 23, 2026 Alignment The persona selection model Jan 29, 2026 Alignment How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Jan 28, 2026 Alignment Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage Jan 9, 2026 Alignment Next-generation Constitutional Classifiers: More efficient protection against universal jailbreaks Dec 19, 2025 Alignment Introducing Bloom: an open source tool for automated behavioral evaluations Nov 21, 2025 Alignment From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking

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