The AI Signal

Import AI (Jack Clark)·Article·3mo ago

Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Clark's framing that alignment is not on track carries weight given his vantage point inside Anthropic's policy orbit. The mention of synthetic research interns is the sleeper detail here: if labs are automating junior research labor, that changes hiring pipelines for AI research teams within a year or two. Worth reading past the alignment headline for the FrontierCode benchmark, which will likely become a reference point for coding agent evaluation.