Review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section in Anthropic's Risk Report (August 2026)
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METR's review of the "Risks from automated R&D" section of Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report concludes that catastrophic risk from models as of July 15 was low, but argues it is plausible Anthropic had already crossed its early-warning threshold for AI R&D acceleration.