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“If this is the case, then AIs speed up AI safety research as much as AI capabilities research, we might expect Anthropic safety researchers to be working 10x faster, and external safety researchers to be working 5x faster now and 10x faster soon.”
Where is all the AI safety research uplift?AI Alignment Forum, November 9, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Buck's inference from METR's report and Anthropic staff estimates of uplift.
“I don't think our empirical research has been going 5x faster since we got access to Fable/Opus 5.5; I would have guessed more like 2-3x speedup. Why is this?”
Where is all the AI safety research uplift?AI Alignment Forum, November 9, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Buck on the Redwood team's experience, which motivates the post.
“At the very least, if we don’t see huge speedups on the kind of AI safety work that is most amenable to huge speedups, I’m going to think the researchers doing that work are doing something wrong.”
Where is all the AI safety research uplift?AI Alignment Forum, November 9, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Closing challenge to external safety researchers.

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  1. EssayAI Alignment ForumWrote it

    Where is all the AI safety research uplift?

    Buck, writing on the AI Alignment Forum, takes METR's estimate of a 1.7x speedup at Anthropic to imply far larger per-researcher uplift, then asks why outside safety researchers see only about 2-3x. Buck lists possible explanations and says the answer should show soon.