What happened
Anthropic Institute said that as of August, 26% of its AI research and development work was almost entirely done by Claude with humans only supervising. In February it was under 1%.
Why it matters
Adding work done jointly with detailed human direction, the share of R&D touched by AI tops 90%, which is likely why Anthropic published these figures as a transparency gauge.
What to watch
No work reached the fully autonomous "AL5" stage as of August, so the shift hinges on whether that top level stays empty.
WHO IT HITSOther AI labs and their research leads now face a visible benchmark for how much of their own R&D an AI model can run, and safety and oversight teams get a concrete monitoring rate (0.002% of over 1 billion checks stopped) to compare against.
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